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. …

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 …

2020年10月13日 · What is a lipoma? A lipoma is a round or oval-shaped lump of tissue that grows just beneath the skin. It’s made of fat, moves easily when you touch it and doesn’t usually …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Spinal cord lipomas are a collection of fat cells that have formed into a lump or mass in the lower part of the spinal canal, in or near the spinal cord. This factsheet provides information about …

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 …

2019年5月1日 · This review summarizes the classification, anatomy, and embryogenesis of complex spinal cord lipomas, and it describes in some detail the new technique of total lipoma …

It can be diagnosed at birth by the presence of a pad of fat over the lower spine. Other skin signs such as a patch of thick hair, a deep dimple, or a red birthmark called a hemangioma over the …