Human tail with noncontiguous intraspinal lipoma and spinal cord tethering: Case report and embryologic discussion

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-40

  Donovan, Daniel J ^a   Pedersen, Robert C ^a  

^a TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Human tail; Spinal lipoma; Tethered spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FASCIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIPOMA; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; NEURULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIPOMA; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; SACRUM; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 19944422449     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084863     Document Type: Review

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