This happens as fibrous connective tissue builds up in the filum terminale, which typically runs from the L1 vertebra of the spinal cord up to the beginning of the coccyx, or tailbone. These ...

Tethered Cord ... of the spinal cord below the L1 vertebral body over time. It is more common in certain congenital disorders including myelomeningocele, lipoma or lipomyelomeningocele, ...

Tethered Cord ... of the spinal cord below the L1 vertebral body over time. It is more common in certain congenital disorders including myelomeningocele, lipoma or lipomyelomeningocele, ...

which is your filum terminale in your lower spine that acts like an anchor for your spinal cord. They have to do minimally invasive sectioning of the filum teriminale to stop the progression and ...

discusses how to resect the filum terminale ependymoma. The surgery was performed with the patient placed in the prone position and spinal levels T12 and L2 were identified. After exposure ...

PARAGANGLIOMA OF the filum tumour is a scary name. Neurosurgeon Dr Subodh Jain of the CHL-Apollo Hospital in Indore has removed the rare spinal tumour ... tumour—filum terminale tumour—later ...