ArticleChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2018
Enlargement of sacral subcutaneous meningocele associated with retained medullary cord.
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- Secondary Neurulation Defects: Retained Medullary Cord.Advances and technical standards in neurosurgery · 2023Article
- Retained medullary cord and caudal lipoma with histopathological presence of terminal myelocystocele in the epidural stalk.Surgical neurology international · 2023Article
- Intramedullary abscess at thoracolumbar region transmitted from infected dermal sinus and dermoid through retained medullary cord.Surgical neurology international · 2022Article
- Subpial Lumbar Lipoma Associated with Retained Medullary Cord.NMC case report journal · 2021Article
- Refractory CSF leakage following untethering surgery performed 10 months after birth for enlarging terminal myelocystocele associated with OEIS complex.Surgical neurology international · 2021Article
- Two cases of retained medullary cord running parallel to a terminal lipoma.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
- Secondary Neurulation Defects-1 : Retained Medullary Cord.Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society · 2020Article
- Retained medullary cord with sacral subcutaneous meningocele and congenital dermal sinus.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2020Article
- 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
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Abstract
backgroundA retained medullary cord (RMC) is a rare closed spinal dysraphism with a robust elongated neural structure continuous from the conus and extending to the dural cul-de-sac. Four cases of RMC extending down to the base of an associated subcutaneous meningocele at the sacral level have been reported. CLINICAL PRESENTATION: We report an additional case of RMC, in whom serial MRI examination revealed an enlargement of the meningocele associated with RMC over a 3-month period between 8 and 11 months of age, when he began to stand. At the age of 12 months, untethering of the cord was performed. Histologically, the presence of ependyma-lined central canals in the dense neuroglial cores was noted in all cord-like structures in the intradural and intrameningocele sacs and at the attachment to the meningocele.
conclusionIt is conceivable that the hydrodynamic pressure with standing position and the check valve phenomenon were involved in meningocele enlargement. We should be mindful of these potential morphological changes.
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