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Dural ectasia
Dural ectasia refers to ballooning or widening of the dural sac which can result in posterior vertebral scalloping and is associated with herniation of nerve root sleeves.
Clinical presentation
Patients with dural ectasia may present with low back pain or radicular pain in the buttocks or legs...
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Dural ectasia - neurofibromatosis
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11 Jul 2020
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Dural ectasia in Marfan syndrome
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Dural ectasia
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03 Mar 2019
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Dural ectasia: with neurofibromatosis type 1
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16 Sep 2014
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Dural ectasia with dural diverticula in ankylosing spondylitis
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30 Sep 2017
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Dural ectasia
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07 Jul 2019
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Dural ectasia: Marfan syndrome
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11 May 2016
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Dural ectasia in Marfan syndrome
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21 Jan 2020
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CNS manifestations of NF1 - optic pathway glioma, neurofibroma, dural ectasia
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04 Sep 2017
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Dural ectasia in Marfan syndrome
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20 Dec 2011
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Dural ectasia: with neurofibromatosis type 1
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Neurofibromatosis type 1 (musculoskeletal manifestations)
Musculoskeletal manifestations of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), or von Recklinghausen disease, are relatively common among these patients, with skeletal abnormalities occurring in up to 50% 1.
For a general discussion of the underlying condition, please refer to the article on neurofibromatos...
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Widening of interpedicular distance
The interpedicular distance, which is the distance measured between the pedicles on frontal/coronal imaging, can be widened in a number of situations.
Pathology
Etiology
diastematomyelia
syringomyelia
conditions that can cause dural ectasia (can potentially cause widening)
Marfan syndrome
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Superficial siderosis of the central nervous system
Superficial siderosis of the central nervous system refers to a condition resulting from deposition of hemosiderin along the leptomeninges and subpial surfaces, particularly infratentorially, with eventual neurological dysfunction, presumably due to a source of slow and chronic/recurrent subarac...
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Marfan syndrome
Marfan syndrome is a multisystem connective tissue disease caused by a defect in the protein fibrillin 1, encoded by the FBN1 gene. Cardiovascular involvement with aortic root dilatation and dissection is the most feared complication of the disease.
Epidemiology
The estimated prevalence is aro...
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Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis (less commonly known as Bechterew disease or Marie-Strümpell disease) is a seronegative spondyloarthropathy, which results in fusion (ankylosis) of the spine and sacroiliac (SI) joints, although involvement is also seen in large and small joints.
Epidemiology
Traditional...
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Lateral meningocele syndrome
Lateral meningocele syndrome is an extremely rare hereditary connective tissue disorder characterized by multiple lateral lumbar meningoceles, distinctive facial features, joint hypermobility, hypotonia, skeletal abnormalities, congenital cardiovascular malformations, urogenital anomalies and ne...
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Tarlov cyst
Tarlov cysts, also called perineural cysts, are CSF-filled dilatations of the nerve root sheath at the dorsal root ganglion (posterior nerve root sheath). These are type II spinal meningeal cysts that are, by definition, extradural but contain neural tissue.
Most Tarlov cysts are asymptomatic, ...
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Vertebral scalloping
Vertebral scalloping is a concavity to the posterior (or less commonly anterior) aspect of the vertebral body when viewed in a lateral projection. A small amount of concavity is normal, as is concavity of the anterior vertebral body (see vertebral body squaring).
Posterior scalloping
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