A tale of two “tails:” A curiosity revisited

A human tail or a caudal appendage is a rare condition with preconceived notions and stigmata. They could be either true tails or “pseudotails” based on their embryology. Clinically, they are considered as a marker of occult spinal dysraphism. We report two such cases with tethering of cord, one of...

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Autores principales: Sadashiva, Nishanth, Beniwal, Manish, Shukla, Dhaval, Srinivas, Dwarakanath
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27606029
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.187647
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author Sadashiva, Nishanth
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description A human tail or a caudal appendage is a rare condition with preconceived notions and stigmata. They could be either true tails or “pseudotails” based on their embryology. Clinically, they are considered as a marker of occult spinal dysraphism. We report two such cases with tethering of cord, one of which was associated with a lipomeningomyelocele. These patients are in need of meticulous evaluation and appropriate management.
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spelling pubmed-49911632016-09-07 A tale of two “tails:” A curiosity revisited Sadashiva, Nishanth Beniwal, Manish Shukla, Dhaval Srinivas, Dwarakanath J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report A human tail or a caudal appendage is a rare condition with preconceived notions and stigmata. They could be either true tails or “pseudotails” based on their embryology. Clinically, they are considered as a marker of occult spinal dysraphism. We report two such cases with tethering of cord, one of which was associated with a lipomeningomyelocele. These patients are in need of meticulous evaluation and appropriate management. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4991163/ /pubmed/27606029 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.187647 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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