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ReviewChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2025

Incomplete cervical limited dorsal myeloschisis with membranous sac: a case report and literature review.

Shohei Kinoshita, Kosuke Katayama, Kiyohide Kakuta, Tomohiro Kaji, Yu Nomura, Ai Mizukami, Takahiro Morita, Toshiaki Hayashi, Atsushi Saito

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Shohei KinoshitaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu, Hirosaki, Aomori, 0368562, Japan.
Kosuke KatayamaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu, Hirosaki, Aomori, 0368562, Japan.
Kiyohide KakutaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu, Hirosaki, Aomori, 0368562, Japan.
Tomohiro KajiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu, Hirosaki, Aomori, 0368562, Japan.
Yu NomuraDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu, Hirosaki, Aomori, 0368562, Japan.
Ai MizukamiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu, Hirosaki, Aomori, 0368562, Japan.
Takahiro MoritaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu, Hirosaki, Aomori, 0368562, Japan.
Toshiaki HayashiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Miyagi Children's Hospital, Miyagi, Japan.
Atsushi SaitoDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu, Hirosaki, Aomori, 0368562, Japan. satsushi2022@hirosaki-u.ac.jp.

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Abstract

Limited dorsal myeloschisis (LDM) is caused by a primary neurulation defect resulting from incomplete disjunction of the cutaneous and neural ectoderm, and manifests as a fibroneural tethering stalk linking the skin lesion to the underlying spinal cord. We present a case of cervical LDM associated with a multi-lobular cystic lesion suspected during the prenatal ultrasonographic check-up. A diaphanous membranous cystic sac without neuronal components inside was extruded from the dorsal cervical vertebrae at the C6/7 portion. The preoperative diagnosis was confirmed by computed tomography (CT), and the lesion was successfully removed. The membranous sac with arachnoid tissue was extruded from the dural defect without direct connection with fibroneural tissue, suggesting incomplete LDM. We report the clinical characteristics of this rare entity along with a literature review.

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Cervical VertebraeNeural Tube DefectsFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornPregnancyTomography, X-Ray ComputedLimited dorsal myeloschisisNeurulationSpinal cord

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