Title: A suggestion to the article "Whole spine MRI is not required in investigating uncomplicated paediatric lumbosacral lipoma: A retrospective single-institution review": extended lumbosacral spine MRI.
Authors: Kim, Kyung Hyun; Lee, Ji Yeoun; Cheon, Jung-Eun; Kim, In-One; Wang, Kyu-Chang
Abstract: The authors emphasized the inefficiency of whole spine (WS) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in evaluation of lumbosacral lipomatous malformation (LSL) comparing with the lumbosacral spine (LS) MRI. 1 Extended lumbosacral spine MRI findings in patients with a an upwardly extended syrinx (up to T5), b an upper separate syrinx (C3-T5), and c an extensive cervicothoracic syrinx at the time of re-tethering (C2-T11).
Subjects: SPINE; LIPOMA; ATLANTO-occipital joint
Publication: Child's Nervous System, 2020, Vol 36, Issue 1, p7
ISSN: 0256-7040
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-019-04387-7

A suggestion to the article "Whole spine MRI is not required in investigating uncomplicated paediatric lumbosacral lipoma: A retrospective single-institution review": extended lumbosacral spine MRI.

Kim, Kyung Hyun; Lee, Ji Yeoun; Cheon, Jung-Eun; Kim, In-One; Wang, Kyu-Chang