A RARE CASE OF ANTERIOR SPINAL CORD HERIATION THAT I HAD SURGERY ON T4 TO T7 LAMINECTOMY AND THROUGH A POETEROLATERAL APPROACH FROM T6 EXPLORED SPINAL BOTH EXRADURALLY AS WELL AS INRADURALLY.THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO DOCUMENT ANY DEFECT IN THE
ANTERIOR DURA ALTHOUGH WE HAD SUSPECED THIS WAS IN PERHAPES PREOPERATIVELY DUE TO EXTRAVASVASATION OF DYE WHICH WE FELT WAS IN THE EPIDURAL SPACE .BUT HOWEVER THE CORD WAS QUITE FLATTENED AND DEVIATED, ANTERIORLY AT THE END OF MY CASETHE DOCTER ,UNTETHERED THE CORD BY TAKING DOWN THE ADHESIONS AS WELL AS THE DENTICULATE LIGAMENT THERE WAS ABUNDANT CSF SACE VENTRAL TO CORD AND THE CORD WAS PULSATING QUITE WEL.OK TO GO TO WHAT WAS DONE,THE DOCTER I WONT CALL BY NAME SAID I WAS A FASCINATING CSE AS I UNDERSTAND THERE IS ONLY AT THE TIME ONLY 12 OR 13 CASES IN LITERATURE. AT THE HOSPITAL.OK HAS THERE BEEN ANYOMRE CASES BECAUSE MY SURGEN HAS TOLD ME HE WOULD LIKE TO DO MY SURGRY AGAIN ,AND I DONT WANT IT IF IT IS NOT GOING TO HELP ME .THE SURGERY TOOK OVER 16 HRS THE 2 TIME AND THE FRIST ONE IN THE SAME YEAR TOOK OVER 18 HRS AND DID NOT WORK.IT IS REALLY HARD ON ME .AND I PUT ON OVER 150 PONDS , BUT I HAVE LOST IT AGAIN ,BUT MY LEGS ARE BAD AND I NEED TO WALK WITH A WALKER .CAN SOME ONE GET BACK TO ME AND LET ME KNOW IF IT HAS BEEN DONE ON ANYONE AND IT WORKED .THANK YOU GLENDA DONNELLY