Split cord malformations: a clinical study of 254 patients and a proposal for a new clinical—imaging classification

Abstract

The authors present the largest series on SCMs so far reported in the world literature The risk of neurological deficits developing increases with age; hence, all patients with SCM should be surgically treated prophylactically even if they are asymptomatic. This new classification is easy to use and remember and takes into account the use of intraoperative findings that may have a bearing on surgical outcome.