A spinal cord lipoma is fat within the normally positioned spinal cord without any skin or bony abnormalities. Most commonly these rare lesions are located within the thoracic spinal cord. They may be symptomatic and appear most often in adults.

2024年5月13日 · Intradural spinal lipomas are sharply circumscribed masses largely conforming to the dura but distorting the cord. They follow fat signal on all sequences: A chemical shift artifact may be seen. The treatment of choice is surgical resection.

Treatment of symptomatic spinal lipomas consists of microsurgical removal of the lipoma. In cases where there is tethering of the spinal cord, usually from lipomas of the filum terminale, a release of the tension is achieved by removing all the …

Spinal lipomas are the most common type of occult spinal dysraphism. The incidence of spinal lipoma is approximately one fifth that of neural tube defects 12 and is present in 1:4000 births.

Spinal lipomas, in particular lipomas of the conus me-dullaris and terminal filum, are the most common form of occult spinal dysraphism, and within this subgroup there is a remarkable spectrum of disease with regard to an-atomy, clinical presentation, and treatment options.

2001年10月1日 · Lipomas of the conus medullaris (or lipomyelomeningo-cele) are the most common form of fatty masses in the spine and can be divided into dorsal, caudal, and transitional forms. These lesions are a manifestation of occult spinal dysraphism and a common cause of the tethered cord syn-drome (TCS).

Spinal lipomas, particularly lipomas of the conus medullaris and terminal filum, are the most common form of occult spinal dysraphism and represent a wide spectrum of disease with regard to anatomy, clinical presentation, and treatment options.

A lipomyelocele is caused by premature separation (disjunction) of the superficial ectoderm (which forms skin) from the neural ectoderm (nerve cells) which forms the spinal cord. The “not-yet closed” neural tube further develops into fat at that location.

2001年10月1日 · Lipomas of the conus medullaris (or lipomyelomeningocele) are the most common form of fatty masses in the spine and can be divided into dorsal, caudal, and transitional forms. These lesions are a manifestation of occult spinal dysraphism and a common cause of the tethered cord syndrome (TCS).

Spinal cord lipomas are rare lesions, representing less than 1% of all spinal cord tumors. They are typically extradural in location, and are predominantly found at the sacral/lumbosacral regions, in conjunction with spinal dysraphism and subcutaneous lipomas.[ 8 ]