Open AccessA rare case of “human tail” associated with lipomyelomeningocele and tethered cord
Author(s) -
Gökhan Canaz,
Nesrin Akkoyun,
Erhan Emel,
Orhun Mete Çevik,
Serdar Baydin,
Akın Gökçedağ
Publication year - 2018
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/jpn.jpn_74_17
Subject(s) - medicine , neural tube , spinal dysraphism , teratoma , neural tube defect , lipoma , concomitant , spinal cord , sign (mathematics) , human pathology , pathology , anatomy , surgery , spina bifida , embryo , disease , biology , genetics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , psychiatry
Human tail might be the most interesting cutaneous sign of neural tube defects. From little cutaneous appendixes to 20-cm-long taillike lesions were reported in the literature. They may occur connected to an underlying pathology such as lipoma or teratoma, but most of the time, they conceal an underlying spinal dysraphism. Many classifications about human tails have been suggested in history, but the main approach to these lesions is, independent of the classification, always the same: investigating the possible spinal dysraphism with concomitant pathologies and planning the treatment on the patient basis.