Open AccessTethered cord with tandem lipomyelomeningoceles, split cord malformation and thick filum
Author(s) -
Hamed Hanif,
Sajjad Khanbabazadeh,
Farideh Nejat,
Mostafa El Khashab
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of pediatric neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1998-3948
pISSN - 1817-1745
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1745.123665
Subject(s) - filum terminale , medicine , lumbosacral joint , spinal cord , presentation (obstetrics) , anatomy , neural tube , neural tube defect , cord , lesion , tethered cord , spinal dysraphism , spina bifida , surgery , embryo , biology , psychiatry , microbiology and biotechnology
Lipomyelomeningocele, a closed neural tube defect, usually occurs in lumbosacral area as a single lesion but can be associated with other spinal dysraphism. We report an infant with a very rare presentation of tandem lumbosacral lipomyelomeningoceles, thick filum terminale and split cord malformation.