title: [Developmental anomalies of thoracic and lumbosacral vertebral column with diastematomyelia: case report].
abstract: Patient, 37-years old, female, admitted to Department of Neurology, with intensive lower back pain and weakness of right lower extremity. Radiological evaluation showed developmental anomalies of spinal cord and vertebral column, with double spinal cord Th10-S1. The mechanism of described clinical symptoms is due to affixed spinal cord syndrome. According to current literature we presented the mechanism of anomaly development. The above case was classified as the second type of split cord malformations.
authors.affiliation: Oddziału Neurologicznego Szpitala Wojewódzkiego w Tarnowie.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kolasa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pyrich
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Siudziński
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Czekierda
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Paprzycki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009436:Neural Tube Defects / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D012447:Sacrum / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed