Intradural mesh: an unusual cause of spinal cord tethering: case report.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A 13-year-old boy with a myelomeningocele experienced progressive foot deformity and lower-extremity pain while walking. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a low-lying spinal cord with scarring near the site of a previous repair. During surgery, the terminal nerve roots were found to have scarred and adhered to a piece of metal mesh lying in the intradural space. The mesh had originally been placed to bridge a sacral ossification defect that was present at the initial closure of the child's myelomeningocele.
Medical subject headings
- Cicatrix
- Meningomyelocele
- Neural Tube Defects
- Postoperative Complications
- Sacrum
- Spinal Nerve Roots
- Surgical Mesh
- Titanium
Anatomy
- foot
- sacrum-coccyx