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Does this baby have a tail?: a case of congenital isolated perineal lipoma presenting as human pseudo-tail

A pseudo-tail is defined as a tail-like lesion in the lumbosacrococcygeal region that is not a true tail but one caused by disease. Perineal lipoma is one of the conditions that may present as a pseudo-tail. Congenital perineal lipoma is a rare disease and in particular, isolated congenital perineal...

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Autores principales: Kim, Soo-Hong, Cho, Yong Hoon, Kim, Hae Young
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Surgical Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793694
http://dx.doi.org/10.4174/astr.2016.90.1.53
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description A pseudo-tail is defined as a tail-like lesion in the lumbosacrococcygeal region that is not a true tail but one caused by disease. Perineal lipoma is one of the conditions that may present as a pseudo-tail. Congenital perineal lipoma is a rare disease and in particular, isolated congenital perineal lipoma without other anomalies is extremely rare. Here we report a case of congenital isolated perineal lipoma presenting as a pseudo-tail and also include a literature review of the condition.
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spelling pubmed-47176092016-01-20 Does this baby have a tail?: a case of congenital isolated perineal lipoma presenting as human pseudo-tail Kim, Soo-Hong Cho, Yong Hoon Kim, Hae Young Ann Surg Treat Res Case Report A pseudo-tail is defined as a tail-like lesion in the lumbosacrococcygeal region that is not a true tail but one caused by disease. Perineal lipoma is one of the conditions that may present as a pseudo-tail. Congenital perineal lipoma is a rare disease and in particular, isolated congenital perineal lipoma without other anomalies is extremely rare. Here we report a case of congenital isolated perineal lipoma presenting as a pseudo-tail and also include a literature review of the condition. The Korean Surgical Society 2016-01 2015-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4717609/ /pubmed/26793694 http://dx.doi.org/10.4174/astr.2016.90.1.53 Text en Copyright © 2016, the Korean Surgical Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Annals of Surgical Treatment and Research is an Open Access Journal. All articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Does this baby have a tail?: a case of congenital isolated perineal lipoma presenting as human pseudo-tail
title Does this baby have a tail?: a case of congenital isolated perineal lipoma presenting as human pseudo-tail
title_full Does this baby have a tail?: a case of congenital isolated perineal lipoma presenting as human pseudo-tail
title_fullStr Does this baby have a tail?: a case of congenital isolated perineal lipoma presenting as human pseudo-tail
title_full_unstemmed Does this baby have a tail?: a case of congenital isolated perineal lipoma presenting as human pseudo-tail
title_short Does this baby have a tail?: a case of congenital isolated perineal lipoma presenting as human pseudo-tail
title_sort does this baby have a tail?: a case of congenital isolated perineal lipoma presenting as human pseudo-tail
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793694
http://dx.doi.org/10.4174/astr.2016.90.1.53
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