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Thoracolumbar teratoma associated with meningomyelocele: common aetiology or coincidence?
Jark Jan Daniel Bosma1, Conor Lawrence Mallucci, Paul Laurence May
1Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Alder Hey, Eaton Road, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK.
Abstract
Introduction:
The association of teratoma and neural tube defects is very rare.
Case Report And Discussion:
A case of teratoma resembling bowel within a meningomyelocele is presented and the literature reviewed.
Conclusion:
The hypotheses of a possible common aetiology for this association include a single dysembryogenic process and neoplastic transformation of heterotopic primordial elements incorporated in the defect.
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