Translating some of their key in vitro findings to an in vivo situation, Mooney, Freedman, Wu and their colleagues focused on a tear in the dural sac enveloping the spinal cord of pigs.

"A dural tear by foreign material that too knife on the dorsal spine having a CSF leak is not something to be discharged so early. Agreed we even discharge spinal intra dural tumour on 3rd day.