Re: Question retethering (maybe idiot) but still...

[Guest guest]

No such thing as idiot questions. The scar tissue forms at the area

of the surgery. The cord retethers at that site, not stretched down

where it was originally.

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> Hi all.

>

> I am reading, as usual, the details of some posts here.

> I have got a question, and I know it might sound idiot, but still

I

> can't find an answer.

>

> The subject is retethering. I do understand that retethering is

often

> caused by the scar tissue and I dis read that is is more probable

for

> LMC or lipoma etc and less probable for fatty filum.

>

> My question: in case of fatty filum, the filum is CUT, so how can

it

> be retethered after? I mean, once the filum is cut, it cannot pull

> down anymore right?

> So does it mean that a lipoma comes out? Or what?

>

> Plus, I talked by phone yesterday with a lady who just had a

> detethering surgery in Spain (if you guys know ROYO and his medical

> group very famous for Chiari) and she said that after ONLY TWO

weeks

> from surgery an RMI showed her cone went up to normal level.

>

> So other question: once the medullar cone goes up, how can it be

> tethered again?

>

> thos of you who had this experience, do you know what caused it?

>

> I don't know if it makes sense what I wrote.

>

> Paola

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