Bui CJ, Tubbs RS, Oakes WJ. Tethered cord syndrome in children: a review. Neurosurgical Focus. 2007;23(2):1-9.
The treatment of a patient with symptoms of a tethered spinal cord and in whom a fatty infiltrated terminal filum is found is controversial. The authors review their experience and the literature regarding this aspect of occult spinal dysraphism. From experience, transection of a fatty terminal filum in patients with symptoms related to excessive caudal cord tension is a minor procedure that generally yields good results. The most problematic issue in the literature is what patients and symptoms are best suited to surgical treatment.
PMID: 17961017
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