Leiomyosarcoma in a cervical myelomeningocele: a rare complication in a neglected case.
Sandeep MohindraAman BatishManjul TripathiKaniyappan NambiyarKirti GuptaPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2020)
A non-healing ulcer of any aetiology is a bed for carcinogenesis. Neglected myelomeningoceles, for any reason, may convert a benign entity to a malignant pathology. To our best knowledge, this is the first case of a leiomyosarcoma arising de novo from myelomeningocele.
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