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Split cord radiographic and operative images. (a) Preoperative photograph of an area of hypertrichosis over the lower lumbar spine. (b) Sagittal T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showing the division of the spinal cord above the dural division and bony septum. (c) T2-weighted axial MRI showed the split cord within a single dural sac. (d) Split cord within divided thecal sac. (e) Intraoperative imaging showing the split cord with associated fat and ectopic ganglion cells from the intradural lesion.
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TC with SCM starting in the upper lumbar spine, becoming two separate dural sacs with a bony septum, and reconstituting into one dural sac/grouping of nerve roots ending in the sacrum [Figure 2].