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Two cases of cervico-dorsal neurenteric cysts are presented, one located dorsal and the other ventral to the spinal cord, with associated Klippel-Feil anomaly, meningocele, spinal dysraphism and possibly spinal cord malformation. One patient was operated on as a neonate for a cervico-thoracic meningocele and presented during adolescence with spastic quadriparesis. Imaging revealed spina bifida, a dorsally located neurenteric cyst and a tendency towards split cord malformation. The other child presented with cervicothoracic kyphoscoliosis and paraparesis. Imaging demonstrated persistence of a cervico-thoracic remnant of the primitive neurenteric canal through the upper thoracic spine.
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Prasad, V.S.S.V., Reddy, D.R. & Murty, J.M.K. Cervico-thoracic neurenteric cyst: clinicoradiological correlation with embryogenesis. Child's Nerv Syst 12, 48–51 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00573856
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