Affiliations: The Spinal Cord Research Centre, Department of Neurosurgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark | Department of Neurosurgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark | MR Research Center, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Note: [] Corresponding author: Dorte Clemmensen, The Spinal Cord Research Centre, Department of Neurosurgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Norrebrogade 44, DK8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Tel.: +45 89494996; Fax: +45 89481557; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: In a patient with myelomeningocele (MMC) and hydrocephalus, hydromyelia can be treated with endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV). A child with lumbar MMC, Chiari malformation type II and hydrocephalus was initially treated with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt. Hydromyelia involving the entire spinal cord was present. At the age of five years, shunt dysfunction was treated with an ETV and the ventriculoperitoneal shunt was removed. After ETV, the hydromyelia regressed in the following year. In patients with MMC, ETV seems to be a possible treatment for both hydrocephalus and hydromyelia.