title: Observations on some rare cases of vertebro-medullar malformations associated with tumors.
abstract: Three cases of complex vertebro-medullary malformations of the diastematomyelic type associated with dysembriogenetic tumors are presented. In the first case, a true diastematomyelia, associated with a teratoma of mixed histological structure, is described. In the second and third cases, diplomyelia associated with an epidermoid and a dermoid cyst respectively are reported.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003884:Dermoid Cyst / Q000150:complications; D004814:Epidermal Cyst / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008526:Medulla Oblongata / Q000002:abnormalities*; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D008579:Meningioma / Q000150:complications; D009192:Myelography; D009436:Neural Tube Defects / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000150:complications; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000002:abnormalities; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery