ArticleChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2019
Human tail-like cutaneous appendage with a contiguous stalk of limited dorsal myeloschisis.
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- 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
- Spinal cord deformity with aggravation of tethering in saccular limited dorsal myeloschisis during the first 2 months of life.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
- Atlantoaxial limited dorsal myeloschisis: A report of two cases and review of literature.Brain & spine · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeLimited dorsal myeloschisis (LDM) is characterized by a fibroneural stalk linking the skin lesion to the underlying spinal cord. On account of the external skin lesion, all LDMs are either flat (nonsaccular) or saccular, and a human tail-like cutaneous appendage has not been reported.
methodsIn our 14 LDM patients, 2 had tail-like appendages. We retrospectively analyzed the relationship between the appendage and the LDM tract from the clinicopathological findings of these 2 patients.
resultsPreoperative magnetic resonance imaging including three-dimensional heavily T2-weighted images demonstrated an intradural tethering tract, but failed to reveal the precise communication with the appendage. However, surgery revealed the extradural and intradural slender stalk, starting at the base of appendage and running through the myofascial defect. Histological examination demonstrated that there was a tight anatomical relationship between the fibroadipose tissue of the appendage and the fibrocollagenous LDM stalk.
conclusionWhen there is potential for an LDM stalk in patients with an appendage, a meticulous exploration of the stalk leading from an appendage is required. Clinicians should be aware of possible morphological variations of skin lesions associated with LDM.
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