General frequency of
Conus Medullaris (CM) termination level among the healthy study group.
Study of the effects of flexion on the position of the
conus medullaris. Childs Nerv Syst 2008;24(9):1043-5.
The painful asymmetric paraparesis in our patient was consistent with subacute painful meningoradiculitis seen in the early dissemination period of neuroborreliosis due to the presence of lymphocytic cell increase in the LP, polyradiculopathy in the EMG and contrast enhancement in leptomeninges, and
conus medullaris and cauda equina fibers in the lumbar MRI examination.
Investigation of the radiological relationship between iliac crests,
conus medullaris and vertebral level in children.
Caption: Figure 1: (a) The sagittal T2-weighted image shows a hyperintense lesion of the
conus medullaris. (b) High signal is observed at the corresponding level on axial DWI.
Longitudinal myelitis, aseptic meningitis, and
conus medullaris infarction as presenting manifestations of pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus.
In all cases, the kinking was located just above the end of the spinal cord where the
conus medullaris (CM) was compressed by the OLF.
MR assessment revealed that the
conus medullaris ended at the L3 vertebra superior end-plate level (tethered cord; Figure 2).
A case of tethered cord syndrome in the
conus medullaris together with an intradural intramedullar tumor seen in an 8-year-old female patient is presented and discussed here.
[23,24] Typical Paraganglioma appear isointense to
conus medullaris on T1 weighted sequence and hyperintense on T2 weighted sequence as seen in our case.
Numerous variations exist in the position of the
conus medullaris with a peak incidence at the lower third of L1 but can range between the middle third of T12 and the upper third of L3 [2, 3].