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Adult Diastematomyelia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Neville A. Russell ,
Brien G. Benoit ,
Andrew J. Joaquin  and
Nayef Al Fayez
Neville A. Russell
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery, Ottawa Civic Hospital, the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and the King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Brien G. Benoit*
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery, Ottawa Civic Hospital, the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and the King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Andrew J. Joaquin
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery, Ottawa Civic Hospital, the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and the King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Nayef Al Fayez
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery, Ottawa Civic Hospital, the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and the King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
*
606 - 1081 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y4G2
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With modern imaging techniques, various types of spinal dysraphism are being diagnosed in adults with increasing frequency. We report a 42-year-old woman with diastematomyelia whose symptoms characteristically were precipated by trauma. She exhibited other typical features such as a posterior midline hair patch and vetebral malformations. Metrizamide myelography with computerized tomography showed a bony septum at Tl 1 with a cleft at T9-T11 separating two dural tubes each of which contained a single spinal hemicord. The septum was excised with complete relief of symptoms.

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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1994 , pp. 72 - 74
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Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1994

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