TY - JOUR
T1 - Ruptured dermoid cyst of the conus medullaris in the myelomeningocele sac revealed at the initial repair surgery
AU - Kurogi, Ai
AU - Morioka, Takato
AU - Murakami, Nobuya
AU - Nakanami, Naoyuki
AU - Suzuki, Satoshi O.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partly supported by the Reseach Foundation of Fukuoka Children’s Hospital. Acknowledgments
Funding Information:
We thank Drs. Nobuko Kawamura, Takeshi Kusuda, and Rie Kikuno, Fukuoka Children?s Hospital, and Tadahisa Shono, Hara-Sanshin Hospital, for supporting our study. We thank Ellen Knapp, PhD, from Edanz Group (www.edanzediting.com/ac ), for editing a draft of this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - Background: Dermoid cysts in the myelomeningocele (MMC) site are thought to arise in a delayed fashion because of iatrogenic implantation of dermoid elements at the time of the initial repair surgery. However, there have been few reports on dermoid elements already present at birth. Clinical presentation: We report a patient, in whom dermoid cyst was located at dorsal aspect of the conus medullaris in the MMC sac. Between 23+3 and 24+4 weeks of gestation, rupture of the MMC sac occurred. At this time of gestation, we speculate that rupture of the dermoid cyst also occurred and dissemination of the cyst contents caused chemical arachnoiditis in the MMC sac. At the age of 1 day, surgery to repair MMC and postoperative histological findings revealed these rare pathologies. Conclusion: Physicians should be aware of the possibility of rupture of a dermoid cyst in the MMC sac during fetal period.
AB - Background: Dermoid cysts in the myelomeningocele (MMC) site are thought to arise in a delayed fashion because of iatrogenic implantation of dermoid elements at the time of the initial repair surgery. However, there have been few reports on dermoid elements already present at birth. Clinical presentation: We report a patient, in whom dermoid cyst was located at dorsal aspect of the conus medullaris in the MMC sac. Between 23+3 and 24+4 weeks of gestation, rupture of the MMC sac occurred. At this time of gestation, we speculate that rupture of the dermoid cyst also occurred and dissemination of the cyst contents caused chemical arachnoiditis in the MMC sac. At the age of 1 day, surgery to repair MMC and postoperative histological findings revealed these rare pathologies. Conclusion: Physicians should be aware of the possibility of rupture of a dermoid cyst in the MMC sac during fetal period.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00381-019-04428-1
DO - 10.1007/s00381-019-04428-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 31776717
AN - SCOPUS:85075612634
SN - 0256-7040
VL - 36
SP - 1061
EP - 1065
JO - Child's Nervous System
JF - Child's Nervous System
IS - 5
ER -