eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | neural tube defects |
| Comorbidity | C0023798|lipomas |
| Sentences | 3 |
| PubMedID- 26430598 | Commonly found in the cauda equina and conus medullaris, these tumors tend to violate the posterior cord and are usually extramedullary.6162 lipomas are commonly associated with spinal dysraphism and are thought to arise from premature disjunction of the cutaneous ectoderm from the neural ectoderm prior to neural tube closure, allowing mesenchymal cells to infiltrate into the neural groove.1 these tumors possess a higher water content than other intramedullary tumors and tend to attach firmly to the dura; their cellular content is indistinguishable from normal adipose tissue.626364 these tumors are slow-growing, and they become symptomatic due to focal mass effect. |
| PubMedID- 21877040 | Diagnosis of, surgical technique for and treatment results from medullary lipomas associated with spinal dysraphism: experience with 38 patients. |
| PubMedID- 24194997 | Most commonly in cases of multiple spinal dysraphism, mms are associated with lipomas, spina bifida, and tight filum terminale, with the occurrence of multiple mms in the same patient being rare [4, 12]. |
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