Items Tagged ‘tethered spinal cord’
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Does That Child Really Have a Tail?
It is an odd thing but every now and then a news item will come out about a child with a “tail.” What this often turns out to be is a small benign tumor that has developed on the lower part of their back called a lipoma. While this makes for a sensational story, these lipomas can actually...
Posted on Jun 16, 2010 by Department Author In Blog, Pediatric Neurosurgery Blog -
Tethered Spinal Cord
Tethered spinal cords are a group of complicated developmental malformations of the spinal cord. These are benign conditions but as with the spina bifida children, can cause terrible consequences if not treated. There is some overlapping of the naming of these conditions and some of them are cases...
