Tethered Cord Syndrome
Tethered cord syndrome
- Causes traction damage to the spinal cord and serious neurological deficits.
- Multiple forms of closed spinal dysraphism cause tethered cord syndrome, but we often think of this syndrome in its relationship to a tight filum terminale or a terminale lipoma [a thickening of the filum terminale due to residual caudal mass cells (of the conus medullaris)].
- These scenarios make it easy to imagine the resultant traction on the cord.