Pseudotail, scoliosis and syndactly, is it new syndrome?
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Pseudotail, scoliosis and syndactly, is it new syndrome?
Introduction Pseudotail is uncommon congenital malformation of the spine, it contains bone, cartilage, notochord and elements of spinal cord. Usually presented as protrusion of the coccygeal vertebra. It may come as solo deformity or in association of tethered cord, myelomeningoceol and other spine deformity, can be part of syndrome, never been reported. It’s different from true tail, which usu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Scoliosis
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1748-7161
DOI: 10.1186/1748-7161-10-s1-p1