ArticleChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2018
Neurosurgical pathology of limited dorsal myeloschisis.
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- Co-existing limited dorsal myeloschisis, spinal dermal sinus tract, and dermoid cyst in a 3-month-old female infant: Illustrative case.Radiology case reports · 2026Article
- Saccular Limited Dorsal Myeloschisis with a Short Stalk at the Base of the Sac Causing Spinal Cord Deviation out of the Spinal Canal.NMC case report journal · 2025Article
- Cervical wart-like cutaneous appendage with a contiguous stalk of limited dorsal myeloschisis treated with untethering after long-term follow-up.Surgical neurology international · 2025Article
- Limited dorsal myeloschisis without extradural stalk continuity to coexisting congenital dermal sinus.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2023Article
- Ectopic dorsal root ganglion in cauda equina mimicking schwannoma in a child.Surgical neurology international · 2023Article
- Focal Spinal Nondisjunctional Disorders: Including a Discussion on the Embryogenesis of Cranial Focal Nondisjunctional Lesions.Advances and technical standards in neurosurgery · 2023Review
- Focal Spinal Nondisjunction in Primary Neurulation : Limited Dorsal Myeloschisis and Congenital Spinal Dermal Sinus Tract.Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society · 2021Article
- Spinal cord deformity with aggravation of tethering in saccular limited dorsal myeloschisis during the first 2 months of life.Surgical neurology international · 2021Article
- Surgical histopathology of a filar anomaly as an additional tethering element associated with closed spinal dysraphism of primary neurulation failure.Surgical neurology international · 2021Article
- Saccular Limited Dorsal Myeloschisis with Spinal Cord Deviation out of the Spinal Canal to the Sac.NMC case report journal · 2021Article
- Terminal syringomyelia associated with lumbar limited dorsal myeloschisis.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2020Article
- Human tail-like cutaneous appendage with a contiguous stalk of limited dorsal myeloschisis.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2019Article
- Limited Dorsal Myeloschisis with and without Type I Split Cord Malformation: Report of 3 Cases and Surgical Nuances.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Article
- Surgical histopathology of limited dorsal myeloschisis with flat skin lesion.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2019Article
- Limited dorsal myeloschisis with no extradural stalk linking to a flat skin lesion: a case report.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2018Article
- Enlargement of sacral subcutaneous meningocele associated with retained medullary cord.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeThe term limited dorsal myeloschisis (LDM) was used by Pang et al. (2010) to describe a distinct clinicopathological entity. LDMs are characterized by two invariable features: a focal-closed neural tube defect and a fibroneural stalk that links the skin lesion to the underlying spinal cord.
methodsWe retrospectively analyzed the neurosurgical pathologic findings of four LDM patients.
resultsCase 1 had a saccular skin lesion with nonterminal abortive myelocystocele at T11-12. Cases 2, 3, and 4 had a non-saccular (flat) skin lesion in the lumbosacral region. The morphologic features of the lesion in case 2 were those of meningocele manque. Cases 3 and 4 had accompanying non-LDM anomalies, caudal-type lipoma and type II split-cord malformation with neurenteric cyst, respectively. At preoperative diagnosis of the LDM stalk, magnetic resonance imaging, including 3D heavily T2-weighted image was useful; however, minute findings were often missed in the complicated cases 3 and 4. All patients had a favorable outcome following untethering of the stalk from the cord. The central histopathological feature of the LDM stalk is neuroglial tissue in the fibrocollagenous band; however, the stalk in cases 2 and 4 did not have glial fibrillary acidic protein-immunopositive neuroglial tissues.
conclusionsTherefore, the diagnosis of LDM should be made based on comprehensive evaluation of histologic and clinical findings.
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