Fatty filum terminale: assessment with MR imaging
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1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
Five cases of fatty filum terminale were encountered in a retrospective analysis of 332 routine lumbosacral magnetic resonance studies. The T1-weighted and GRASS images were particularly useful in evaluating the filum. An irregularly thickened fatty filum, especially if associated with a low conus, is likely to be pathologic and responsible for a patient's symptoms and signs.