Journal article
Lipomatous Lumbar Mass with an Attached Digit and Associated Split Cord Malformation
Abstract
BACKGROUND: A male infant was born with a digit attached to a skin-covered lumbar lipomatous mass and an underlying split cord malformation.
METHODS: Surgical removal of the mass was performed at four months-of-age. By this time the digit had grown a nail and imaging and histology showed ongoing development of articulated phalanges.
Authors
Snelling C; Ellis P; Smith R; Rossiter J
Journal
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 250–254
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date
May 2008
DOI
10.1017/s0317167100008738
ISSN
0317-1671