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ArticleFrontiers in neuroanatomy2025

Morphological analysis of the filum terminale and detailed description of the distal filum terminale externum: a cadaveric study.

Edgar Buloz-Osorio, Marisa Ortega-Sánchez, Miguel B Royo-Salvador, Alfonso Rodríguez-Baeza

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Article in Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Edgar Buloz-OsorioInstitut Guttmann, Institut Universitari de Neurorehabilitació Affiliated with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain.
Marisa Ortega-SánchezHuman Anatomy and Embryology Unit, Department of Morphological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
Miguel B Royo-SalvadorInstitut Chiari and Siringomielia and Escoliosis de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Alfonso Rodríguez-BaezaHuman Anatomy and Embryology Unit, Department of Morphological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This observational, descriptive anatomical cadaveric study aimed to identify, characterize, and analyze the morphometric parameters of the filum terminale (FT) and macroscopically describe the distal insertion of the FTE. The FT is a complex, three-dimensional, fibro-cellular structure of connective tissue and glial cells, extending from the conus medullaris (CM) to the dural sac (DS) and coccyx. It is divided into two segments: an intradural filum terminale internum (FTI) and extradural filum terminale externum (FTE). Few studies have comprehensively addressed its morphometric characteristics in the last decades. Thirty-eight embalmed (M = 16, F = 22) human cadavers were examined to determine the CM-FTI and DS-FTE vertebral levels and FT, FTI, and FTE lengths and widths. FTI and FTE segmental diameters, correlations, gross characteristics, tension, and mobility

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cadaveric studyconus medullarisdural sacdura materfilum terminaleneuroanatomyspinal cordtethered cord syndrome

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PMCPMC11975916

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