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Combination of caudal myxopapillary ependymoma and dermal sinus: a single shared embryologic lesion?
Nicole I Wolf1, Inga Harting, Marius Hartmann
1Department of Paediatric Neurology, University Children's Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany. nicole_wolf@med.uni-heidelberg.de
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
|July 29, 2003
Abstract:
A female child presenting with acute flaccid paraparesis at 18 months was found to have a dermal sinus in combination with a dermoid cyst and a myxopapillary ependymoma of the cauda equina and conus medullaris. A possible embryologic relation between these lesions is discussed.