Abstract

ESPINOSA CREAGH, Yanet; DE LA CRUZ DE ONA, Andria  and  PONS PORRATA, Laura María. Diagnosis of lumbosacral lipoma and anchored marrow syndrome by means of magnetic resonance in an adolescent. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.3, pp.408-412. ISSN 1029-3019.

The case report of a 13 years patient who had been operated in the first year of life due to a lipomeningocele who in this occasion visited "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, where he was diagnosed, by means of magnetic resonance, an hyperintense image in T1 and T2 in the intrarraquideal lumbar region, embedded to the phylum terminal, possibly of fatty origin, is presented. A sequence of fat suppression (SFS) was carried out and two congenital malformations were defined: lumbosacral lypoma and anchored marrow syndrome

Keywords : magnetic resonance of images; lumbosacral lipoma; anchored marrow syndrome.

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