Hemiparesis of bladder caused by tethered cord. Can Urol Assoc J 2008 Feb;2(1):55-6
Date
06/11/2008Pubmed ID
18542733Pubmed Central ID
PMC2422890DOI
10.5489/cuaj.530Abstract
Conventional teaching has maintained that the detrusor musculature is well-coupled and unilateral innervation should prompt a coordinated detrusor contraction. We present the case of a 17-year-old girl with a tethered spinal cord, unilateral neurologic symptoms and fluoroscopic evidence of ipsilateral hemiparesis of the bladder unresponsive to cord detethering. This adds to a small body of evidence that the bladder smooth muscle is less well-coupled than once believed.
Author List
Payne RA, O'Connor RC, Guralnick MLAuthors
Michael Guralnick MD Professor in the Urologic Surgery department at Medical College of WisconsinRobert Corey O'Connor MD Professor in the Urologic Surgery department at Medical College of Wisconsin
