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Diastematomyelia--a 40-year experience
D J Gower1, O Del Curling, D L Kelly
1Department of Surgery, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Pediatric Neuroscience
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Diastematomyelia is a rare but potentially devastating spinal dysraphism classically characterized as a bony or fibrous spur separating two hemispinal cords. This study reviews our experience with diastematomyelia over a 40-year period from 1947 through 1987, and suggests that the neurologic and orthopedic deficits of diastematomyelia remain stable during extended follow-up after surgery.