title: Unusual segmental narrowing of spinal cord responsible for child paraparesis.
abstract: We describe a 7-year-old girl with spastic paraparesis. Her clinical condition was due to a unusual segmental thoracic narrowing of spinal cord. We show the imaging of her spinal cord, we compare her condition with the few similar cases from the literature and we try to suppose an aetiology.
authors.affiliation: Child Neuropsychiatry Unit, S Croce e Carle Hospital, V Carle 5, 12100 Cuneo, Italy. briatore.e@ospedale.cuneo.it
authors.forename: Eleonora
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Briatore
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boghi
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Podestà
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gozzoli
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Calzolari
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020336:Paraparesis, Spastic / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000473:pathology*; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae