Role of expansile duraplasty and neural monitoring in surgery for Anterior Thoracic Spinal Cord Herniation

Anterior thoracic spinal cord herniation (ATSCH) is a rare cause of progressive neurological dysfunction of lower limbs where a portion of spinal cord tissue herniates through a ventral dural defect. We report a 19-year adolescent male who presented with myelopathy (Frankel D) secondary to ATSCH at...

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Main Authors: Venugopal Sarath Chander, Ramachandran Govindasamy, Dheeraj Masapu, Veeramani Preethish-Kumar, Satish Rudrappa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751920304205