- Department of Neurosurgery, AIIMS Raipur, Tatibandh, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
- Department of Anaesthesiology AIIMS Raipur, Tatibandh, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
- Department of Radiology, AIIMS Raipur, Tatibandh, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
- Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
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Charandeep Singh Gandhoke
Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
DOI:10.25259/SNI_142_2020
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We report the case of a 6-year-old female child, 3rd child of a nonconsanguineous marriage, who presented with complaints of weakness of the right lower limb and deformity of the right foot since birth. She also complained of fever on and off, abdominal pain and dribbling of urine for 4 months. On examination, power in the right lower limb was 3/5 and all sensations in the right lower limb were decreased. She also had right foot congenital talipes equinovarus. Urine Routine/ Microscopy was suggestive of urinary tract infection. Urine Culture/Sensitivity showed the growth of Escherichia coli. Antibiotics were given according to culture sensitivity. Her radiology revealed kyphoscoliotic deformity with segmentation anomalies including hemivertebrae and bifid spine at multiple levels, low lying tethered spinal cord (up to the upper sacral level) with diastematomyelia [Type 1 Split cord malformation (SCM) with 2 dural tubes] with a bony spur at D12/L1 level with triplomyelia at D10 level (3 hemicords within a single dural tube) and small lipomyelomeningocele attached to the right hemicord at L4/L5 level [
Figure 4:
Intraoperative photographs showing (a) diastematomyelia with two dural tubes (arrows), with a rigid bony septum in between (black arrowhead). (b) At D10 level, there was triplication of the spinal cord (arrows). The thicker left hemicord split again to form two smaller hemicords. Above and below this level, the left hemicord continued as one. (c) Lipomyelomeningocele attached to the right hemicord at L4/L5 level (arrow) (d) reconstitution of the dural tube into one at the end of the procedure.
SCM’s are of two types.[
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