Surgical management of thoracic idiopathic spinal cord herniation. Technical case report and review.
Acta Neurochir (Wien)
; 158(8): 1579-82, 2016 08.
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ABSTRACT
Idiopathic spinal cord herniation (ISCH) is a rare spinal disease, in which chronic cerebrospinal fluid pulsations push the arachnoid and adjacent thoracic spinal cord region through an antero-lateral dural defect of congenital, post-traumatic, or inflammatory/erosive origin. Symptomatic patients commonly present around the 5th decade of life with slowly progressive myelopathy. Diagnosis relies on high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging. Stable mild cases may be observed, whereas in progressive symptomatic situations, surgical spinal cord reposition and dural defect repair with a dural patch is the preferred treatment. We present a case of ISCH at T5/6 and a review the literature.
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Medula Espinal
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Doenças da Medula Espinal
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Vértebras Torácicas
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Herniorrafia
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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Acta Neurochir (Wien)
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2016
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