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http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2021.0023

Disorders of Secondary Neurulation : Mainly Focused on Pathoembryogenesis  

Yang, Jeyul (Neuro-oncology Clinic, Center for Rare Cancers, National Cancer Center)
Lee, Ji Yeoun (Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Children's Hospital)
Kim, Kyung Hyun (Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Children's Hospital)
Wang, Kyu-Chang (Neuro-oncology Clinic, Center for Rare Cancers, National Cancer Center)
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Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society / v.64, no.3, 2021 , pp. 386-405 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recent advancements in basic research on the process of secondary neurulation and increased clinical experience with caudal spinal anomalies with associated abnormalities in the surrounding and distal structures shed light on further understanding of the pathoembryogenesis of the lesions and led to the new classification of these dysraphic entities. We summarized the changing concepts of lesions developed from the disordered secondary neurulation shown during the last decade. In addition, we suggested our new pathoembryogenetic explanations for a few entities based on the literature and the data from our previous animal research. Disordered secondary neurulation at each phase of development may cause corresponding lesions, such as failed junction with the primary neural tube (junctional neural tube defect and segmental spinal dysgenesis), dysgenesis or duplication of the caudal cell mass associated with disturbed activity of caudal mesenchymal tissue (caudal agenesis and caudal duplication syndrome), failed ingression of the primitive streak to the caudal cell mass (myelomeningocele), focal limited dorsal neuro-cutaneous nondisjunction (limited dorsal myeloschisis and congenital dermal sinus), neuro-mesenchymal adhesion (lumbosacral lipomatous malformation), and regression failure spectrum of the medullary cord (thickened filum and filar cyst, low-lying conus, retained medullary cord, terminal myelocele and terminal myelocystocele). It seems that almost every anomalous entity of the primary neural tube may occur in the area of secondary neurulation. Furthermore, the close association with the activity of caudal mesenchymal tissue in secondary neurulation involves a wider range of surrounding structures than in primary neurulation. Although the majority of the data are from animals, not from humans and many theories are still conjectural, these changing concepts of normal and disordered secondary neurulation will provoke further advancements in our management strategies as well as in the pathoembryogenetic understanding of anomalous lesions in this area.
Keywords
Secondary neurulation; Caudal cell mass; Caudal mesenchymal tissue; Anomaly; Embryology;
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