title: Faun tail: a rare cutaneous sign of spinal dysraphism.
abstract: Faun tail is a triangle-shaped hypertrichosis of the lumbosacral region. It is a rare condition and it can be a cutaneous marker of underlying spinal cord anomaly. We report on a 17-year-old female patient with hypertrichosis on the lumbosacral area since birth that was later diagnosed with tethered cord in magnetic resonance imaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Konya Training and Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey. Corresponding author: gsaylamkurtipek@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Gülcan Saylam
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Kurtipek
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Practice, Necmettin Erbakan University, Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Fatma Göksin
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Cihan
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Konya Training and Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Vefa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Öner
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Konya Training and Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Arzu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ataseven
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Konya Training and Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey.
authors.forename: İlkay
authors.initials: İ
authors.lastname: Özer
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Konya Training and Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Zahide
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Akman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006983:Hypertrichosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D008161:Lumbosacral Region; D016135:Spinal Dysraphism / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*