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Child's Nervous System
Published in: Child's Nervous System 11/2016

01-11-2016 | Original Paper

Results of the prophylactic surgery of lumbosacral lipomas 20 years of experience in the Paediatric Neurosurgery Department La Timone Enfants Hospital, Marseille, France

Authors: Sandra Pérez da Rosa, Didier Scavarda, Maurice Choux

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 11/2016

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Abstract

Introduction

We conducted a retrospective study of children with lumbosacral lipomas treated in the Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery hospital Timone Enfants in the last 20 years. We selected patients with lipomas of the conus medullaris who underwent preventive surgery. 86 ,4 % of the patients remained asymptomatic during the follow-up. Worse results were observed in children older than one year old at surgery with transitional lipoma, with the conus medullaris was below L5 and when the resection had been partial. In view of the results, the authors recommend the preventive surgery before the first year of life under neurophysiologic monitoring in order to perform a total near-total resection with a neural plate reconstitution.
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Metadata
Title
Results of the prophylactic surgery of lumbosacral lipomas 20 years of experience in the Paediatric Neurosurgery Department La Timone Enfants Hospital, Marseille, France
Authors
Sandra Pérez da Rosa
Didier Scavarda
Maurice Choux
Publication date
01-11-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Child's Nervous System / Issue 11/2016
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-016-3198-8

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