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DIASTEMATOMYELIA

  • Serdar PEDUKCOŞKUN
  • Haluk AĞUŞ
  • Ümit SABANCI
  • Ahmet VİDİNEL

J Turk Spinal Surg 1993;4(4):105-106

From 1992 to 1994, 3 patients with diastematomyelia were treated. This anomaly is very rare and character-ized by a duplication of the spinal cord with a band or a spur, which is attached to the corpus of the vertebra. Be-cause of the difterence betvveen the growth rates of the bony vertebraI canal and the spinal cord, in the neurologic sings appear and become serious.

The surgical treatment must be done as soon as the diagnosis is made. We've done laminectomy, posterior