دارسة الحبل النخاعي المشدود بالرنين المغناطيسي عند الأطفال

Abstract EN

The aim of this work is to study tethered cord syndrome by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), because it is widespread congenital spinal cord malformation in our country.

Methods: The applied research studied 400 children by lumbosacral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), they have different problems and symptoms (nervous, urologic and vertebral or dermal anomalies).

Results: The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study showed that the most common congenital spinal cord malformation was tethered cord syndrome (67.4%).

The rate of female malformations are higher than males (56.2%), the highest was between 1 day and 4 year old children (70.3%).

Most cases were accompanied with another malformations (84.5%).

Conclusions: Tethered cord syndrome should be always kept in our minds for every child has dermovertebral anomalies, local nervous or urologic symptoms.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) considered the perfect way to discover these malformations.