title: Tethered conus medullaris in metrizamide myelography.
abstract: The tethered conus is probably a rather unknown entity. Every patient, adult or child, with spinal dysraphia, presenting an unexplained progressive urological, neurological and/or orthopedic disturbance can have a tethered cord. With lumbar myelography using metrizamide it is possible to diagnose the low positioned conus and its tethering causes. A review of the clinical symptoms and diagnostic radiology, illustrated with myelographic evidence, is given.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008067:Lipoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008793:Metrizamide; D009192:Myelography; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010243:Paralysis / Q000209:etiology; D012677:Sensation; D016136:Spina Bifida Occulta / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013577:Syndrome
chemical_list: D008793:Metrizamide