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A 2-year-old girl presented with an anterior sacral meningocele completely occupied by an epidermoid tumor. Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging had shown the meningocele with contents of the same intensity as cerebrospinal fluid. Surgery via a posterior sacral approach disclosed the tumor beneath an unexpected membrane inside the meningocele. Additionally, the presence of pus inside epidermoid tumor suggested that possible episodes of asymptomatic meningitis or other infection might have occurred before treatment, these being the major complication in anterior sacral meningocele. Therefore, we recommend that surgical treatment should be performed at the earliest possible stage in childhood, once the diagnosis is established, and dural plasty carried out to prevent infectious complications.
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Received: 2 March 1998 Revised: 26 June 1998
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Shamoto, H., Yoshida, Y., Shirane, R. et al. Anterior sacral meningocele completely occupied by an epidermoid tumor. Child's Nerv Syst 15, 209–211 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003810050372
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