An unusual case of the complete Currarino triad: Case report, discussion of the literature and the embryogenic implications

Neurosurgery

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 658-662

  Gegg, Christopher A ^a   Vollmer, Dennis G ^a,b   Tullous, Micam W ^a   Kagan Hallet, Kathleen S ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Caudal eminence; Currarino triad; Sacral agenesis; Sacral teratoma; Secondary neurulation

Indexed keywords

ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRUM; SACRUM AGENESIS; TERATOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 0032981658     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199903000-00127     Document Type: Article

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