[Neurologic pathology in butterfly deformities of the body of the mid-thoracic vertebra (clinico-x-ray-anatomic observation)]. / O nevrologicheskoi patologii pri babochkovidnoi deformatsii tela srednegrudnogo pozvonka (kliniko-rentgenoanatomicheskoe nabliudenie).

Results of the clinico-roentgenological observation of butterfly-like deformity of the middle dorsal vertebra body (a rare congenital anomaly) are presented. In the presence of an infection the patient developed a spinal pathology (lower central paraparesis, parahypesthesia, disturbances of the functions of pelvic organs). The neurological symptoms were found to be due to an adhesive process in the spinal meninges at the level of the deformed vertebra and the secondary compression-ischemic myelopathy. The treatment consisted in injecting prednisolone under the spinal meninges. The patient's roentgenograms were compared with a macerated museum preparation of dorsal vertebrae.