Two cases of retained medullary cord running parallel to a terminal lipoma

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Ai Kurogi1, Nobuya Murakami1, Takato Morioka2, Nobutaka Mukae3, Takafumi Shimogawa3, Kyoko Kudo4, Satoshi Suzuki5, Masahiro Mizoguchi3
1Department of Neurosurgery, Fukuoka Children’s Hospital, Saga, Japan.
2Department of Neurosurgery, Harasanshin Hospital, Saga, Japan.
3Department of Neurosurgery, Kyushu University, Saga, Japan.
4Department of Dermatology, Fukuoka Children’s Hospital, Saga, Japan.
5Department of Psychiatry, Shourai Hospital, Saga, Japan.

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Background: Retained medullary cord (RMC) is a newly defined entity believed to originate from the late arrest of secondary neurulation. Some RMCs contain varying amounts of lipomatous tissues, which need to be differentiated from spinal lipomas, such as filar and caudal lipomas (terminal lipomas). Case Description: We surgically treated two patients with a nonfunctional cord-like structure (C-LS) that was continuous from the cord and extended to the dural cul-de-sac, and ran parallel to the terminal lipoma. In both cases, untethering surgery was performed by resecting the C-LS with lipoma as a column, under intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring. Histopathological examination confirmed that the central canal-like ependyma-lined lumen with surrounding neuroglial and fibrocollagenous tissues, which is the central histopathological feature of an RMC, was located on the unilateral side of the resected column, while the fibroadipose tissues of the lipoma were located on the contralateral side. Conclusion: Our findings support the idea proposed by Pang et al. that entities such as RMC and terminal lipomas are members of a continuum of regression failure occurring during late secondary neurulation, and the coexistence of RMC and terminal lipoma is not a surprising finding. Therefore, it may be difficult in clinical practice to make a distinct diagnosis between these two entities.

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