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Can you tell a tethered chord when radiologists have not diagnosed it, is one recent mri being the only one that is showing a tethered chord enough?

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Dr. Michael Gabor answered

Specializes in Diagnostic Radiology

A tethered cord: on MRI is unlikely to be confused with anything else. MRI is the imaging modality of choice to diagnose tethered cord.

Answered 7/24/2016

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