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ArticleChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2022

Limited dorsal myeloschisis involving one hemicord of a split cord malformation - a "hemi-LDM".

Dachling Pang, Abel Devadass, Dominic Thompson

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Article in Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Gastrulation and Split Cord Malformation.Advances and technical standards in neurosurgery · 2023
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3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Dachling PangDepartment of Paediatric Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3JH, UK. PangTV@aol.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6603-6546
Abel DevadassDepartment of Paediatric Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3JH, UK.
Dominic ThompsonDepartment of Paediatric Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3JH, UK.
Great Ormond Street Hospital · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This is a case report of an exceedingly rare case of a limited dorsal myeloschisis (LDM) with its stalk inserted on the midline dorsal surface of one of a pair of hemicords in a type II split cord malformation. This entity, literally a "hemi-LDM," has been seen only once by the senior author in his catalogue of over 200 cases of LDM (Pang et al., 2020), nor has it been reported elsewhere before. We postulate that here the mechanism of focal nondisjunction of the hemi-neural plate during primary neurulation, which produces LDMs, occurs at the cusp of the consecutive developmental stages of gastrulation and primary neurulation, right after the appearance of the hemi-neural plates and hemi-notochords caused by the endomesenchymal tract. This child also had a terminal lipoma attached to the end of the conus, indicating that disruption of all three tandem stages of neural tube formation, namely, gastrulation, primary neurulation, and secondary neurulation, can occur in the same individual.

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LipomaMeningomyeloceleNeural Tube DefectsChildHumansNeurulationSpinal CordComposite malformationEmbryogenetic mechanismFocal incomplete disjunctionGastrulationLimited dorsal myeloschisisPrimary neurulationSplit cord malformation

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PMID35794361
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