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Faun tail: a rare cutaneous sign of spinal dysraphism
Gülcan Saylam Kurtipek1, Fatma Göksin Cihan2, Vefa Öner3
1Department of Dermatology, Konya Training and Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey. Corresponding author: gsaylamkurtipek@yahoo.com.
Faun tail is a triangle-shaped hypertrichosis of the lumbosacral region. It is a rare condition and it can be a cutaneous marker of underlying spinal cord anomaly. We report on a 17-year-old female patient with hypertrichosis on the lumbosacral area since birth that was later diagnosed with tethered cord in magnetic resonance imaging.
Faun tail is a triangle-shaped hypertrichosis of the lumbosacral region. It is a rare condition and it can be a cutaneous marker of underlying spinal cord anomaly. We report on a 17-year-old female patient with hypertrichosis on the lumbosacral area since birth that was later diagnosed with tethered cord in magnetic resonance imaging.
