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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 400-402 |
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A tale of two tails: Not just skin deep
Abhijit Dutta1, Sudip Kumar Ghosh2, Asok Kumar Mandal1
1 Department of Pediatric Medicine, North Bengal Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprosy, RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Sudip Kumar Ghosh
Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0019-5154.160496
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The dorsal cutaneous appendage or the so called human tail is a rare congenital anomaly protruding from the lumbo-sacro-coccygeal area. These caudal appendages are divided into true-tails and pseudo-tails. We report here two cases of congenital pseudo-tail with underlying spina bifida and lipo-meningocele. In this article we seek to emphasize that, as the skin and nervous systems are intimately linked by their similar ectodermal origin, a dorsal appendage may be regarded as a cutaneous marker of the underlying spinal dysraphism. |
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