Cervical meningocele. A case report

Authors

  • Mabel Rita Camejo Macías Especialista de Segundo Grado en Medicina General Integral. Máster en Longevidad Satisfactoria. Profesor Auxiliar. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas. Pinar del Río.
  • Alberto Pérez Villafuerte Especialista de Segundo grado en Neurocirugía. Máster en Urgencias Médicas. Profesor Auxiliar. Hospital Docente General «Abel Santamaría Cuadrado». Pinar del Río.
  • Lorenzo Rodríguez Rodriguez Licenciado en Tecnología de la Salud e Inmunohematología. Instructor. Máster en Longevidad Satisfactoria. Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico ¨León Cuervo Rubio¨. Pinar del Río.
  • Noraima Pérez del Llano Especialista en Medicina General Integral. Policlínico Turcios Limas. Pinar del Río.
  • Juan Carlos Sánchez Bermejo Especialista en Neurocirugía. Hospital General Docente Abel Santamaría Cuadrado. Pinar del Río.

Keywords:

Meningocele, Infant.

Abstract

Cervical meningocele is a rare form of spinal dysrhahism. Neural plate undergoes various transformations to become into the neural tube, and any modifications occurring during the closure, will lead to the onset of spina bifida. During pregnancy the maternal needs of folates increase due to the synthesis of nucleic acids and proteins, all through the embryogenesis, velocity of growth and fetal development in the first months of pregnancy. A 12-months age, male patient, born from a normal delivery, December 5, 2008 at “Santa Barbara” Hospital, presented a tumor at birth in the posterior region of the neck; the patient was referred to the Neurosurgery Service at “Mario Catarino Rivas” Hospital. As positive information, a rounded volume increase in the cervical region was observed, it was adhere at profound plane, renitent, movable, painless, totally covered by skin. Cervical meningocele was diagnosed, confirming the diagnosis with a cervico-dorsal nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). February 2010 the tumor was removed and the patient is periodically assessed at Neurosurgery Service and in the health area, having a satisfactory evolution.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

1. Kerckoff-Villanueva HH, Bautista-Melgoza A, Rodríguez-Márquez DM. Meningocele cervical con conexión filiforme. Reporte de un caso. Ginecol Obstet Mex[internet] 2011[citado enero 2012];79(8):497-500. Disponible en: http://www.nietoeditores.com.mx/download/gineco/2011/AGOSTO2011/FEMEGO8.11MENINGOCELE.pdf

2. Tungaria A, Kumar Srivastav A, Mahapatra AK, Kumar R. Multiple neural tube defects in the same patient with no neurological déficit. J Pediatr Neurosci[internet]. 2010 Jan-Jun[cited january 2012]; 5(1): 52-54. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964786/

3. Rivero-Celada D, Carcavilla-Loncán LI, Marín-Cárdenas MA, Cantero-Antón JM, Alfaro-Torres J, Duato-Jané F, et al. Degeneración tumoral en meningocele no intervenido. Descripción de dos casos. Neurocirugía[internet]. 2006[citado enero 2012]; 17(6): 532-537. Disponible en: http://scielo.isciii.es/pdf/neuro/v17n6/4.pdf

4. Senoglu M, Yilmaz Z. Cervical meningocele with tethered cord in a seven -years old child: Case Report. The Internet Journal of Pediatrics and Neonatology[internet]. 2009[cited january 2012];10(1): Available from: http://www.ispub.com/journal/the-internet-journal-of-pediatrics-and-neonatology/volume-10-number-1/cervical-meningocele-with-tethered-

cord-in-a-seven-years-old-child-case-report.html

5. Tarqui-Mamani C, Sanabria H, Lam N, Arias J. Incidencia de los defectos del tubo neural en el Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal de Lima. Rev Chil Salud Pública[internet] 2009[citado enero 2012];13(2): 82-89. Disponible en: http://www.revistasaludpublica.uchile.cl/index.php/RCSP/article/viewFile/614/518

6. Eller TW, Bernstein LP, Rosenberg RS, McLone DG. Tethered cervical spinal cord. Case report. J Neurosurg. 1987;67:600-2.

7. Iizuka T. Fatty Filum Terminale on MRI. The Internet Journal of Spine Surgery[ìnternet]. 2007[cited january 2012];3(1): Available from: http://www.ispub.com/journal/the-internet-journal-of-spine-surgery/volume-3-number-1/fatty-filum-terminale-on-mri.html

8. Sáez Martín A, Moreno C, Platas M, Lambre J, Bernachea J, Landaburu P. Dilatación del ventrículo terminal: Presentación de un caso. Revisión de la literatura. Rev. argent. neurocir. [revista en la Internet]. 2007 Sep [citado 2012 Feb 22]; 21(3): Disponible en: http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1850-15322007000300014&lng=es.

9. Shane Tubos R, Oakes WJ. A simple method to deter retethering in patients with spinal dysraphism[technical note]. Childs Nerv Syst[internet].2006[cited january 2012];22: 715-716. Available from: http://www.springerlink.com/content/946528722782474m/fulltext.pdf

10. Martínez-Lage JF, Ruiz-Espejo Vilar A, Almagro MJ, Sánchez del Rincón I, Ros de San Pedro J, Felipe-Murcia M. et al. Reanclaje medular en pacientes con mielomeningocele y lipomeningocele: la segunda operación. Neurocirugía [revista en la Internet]. 2007 Ago [citado 2012 Feb 22]; 18(4): 312-319. Disponible en: http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1130-14732007000400004&lng=es.

11. Brezner A, Kay B. Spinal cord ultrasonography in children with myelomeningocele. Dev Med Child Neurol. 1999;41:450_455 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1999.tb00637.x/pdf

12. Fong D. Spinal Dysraphism. The Hong Kong Medical Diary[internet]. december 2006[cited january 2012]; 11(12):Available from: http://www.fmshk.org/database/articles/mb02drdawsonfong.pdf

13. Bulent Düz, Selcuk Gocmen, Halil Ibrahim Secer, Seref Basal, Engin Gönül. Tethered Cord Syndrome in Adulthood J Spinal Cord Medìnternet]. 2008[cited january 2012]; 31(3): 272-278. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2565560/

14. Myeong Jin Kim, Soo Han Yoon, Ki Hong Cho, Geun Soo Won. Tethered Spinal Cord with Double Spinal Lipomas. Korean Med Sciìnternet]. 2006 December[cited january 2012]; 21(6): 1133-1135. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2721945/

15. Aguiar CA, Mendoza-Lattes S, Cobb P, Menezes A, Weinstein SL. Unusual Association of Congenital Kyphosis and Conus Lipoma Presenting as a Double Spinal Cord Tether Iowa Orthop J[internet]. 2007[cited january 2012]; 27: 85-89. Available from: http://ukpmc.ac.uk/articles/PMC2150652/pdf/iowa0027-0085.pdf

16. Reigel DH, Tchernoukha K, Bazmi B, et al. Change in spinal curvature following release of tethered spinal cord associated with spina bifida. Pediatr Neurosurg. 1994; 20:30-42.

17. Ramesh VV Ch. Phani MK. Cervical myelocystocele: Case report and review of literature. J Pediatr Neurosci[internet]. 2011 Jan-Jun[cited january 2012]; 6(1): 55-57. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3173918/

18. Herman JM, McLone DG, Storrs BB, et al. Analysis of 153 patients with myelomeningocele or spinal lipoma reoperated upon for a tethered cord. Presentation, management, and outcome. Pediatr Neurosurg.1993; 19(5):243-49.

Downloads

Published

2012-07-02

How to Cite

1.
Camejo Macías MR, Pérez Villafuerte A, Rodríguez Rodriguez L, Pérez del Llano N, Sánchez Bermejo JC. Cervical meningocele. A case report. Rev Ciencias Médicas [Internet]. 2012 Jul. 2 [cited 2025 Aug. 29];16(3):288-9. Available from: https://revcmpinar.sld.cu/index.php/publicaciones/article/view/947

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 3 (2012)

Section

CASE REPORTS

License

Authors who have publications with this journal agree to the following terms: Authors will retain their copyrights and grant the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-NC 4.0) that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and first publication in this journal are indicated.

Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for distribution of the published version of the work (e.g.: deposit it in an institutional telematic archive or publish it in a volume). Likewise, and according to the recommendations of the Medical Sciences Editorial (ECIMED), authors must declare in each article their contribution according to the CRediT taxonomy (contributor roles). This taxonomy includes 14 roles, which can be used to represent the tasks typically performed by contributors in scientific academic production. It should be consulted in monograph) whenever initial publication in this journal is indicated. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work through the Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their web page) before and during the submission process, which may produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work. (See The effect of open access). https://casrai.org/credit/