“Pseudo-dermal sinus tract or spinal dermal sinus-like stalk?” Reply to Drs. Cornips, Weber, Vles, and Van Aalst's Letter to the Editor

Missed limited dorsal myeloschisis: an unfortunate cause for recurrent tethered cord syndrome

“…Their locations in non-terminal locations in the spinal cord also served to confound the issue. They were known by a plethora of confusing terminologies as nonterminal myelocystoceles [4,5], meningocele, isolated spinal dermal sinus tract [6], pseudo-dermal sinus tract [7], spinal dermal sinus-like stalk [8,9], spina bifida cystic, et cetera. The meningoceles were repaired without looking for the fibrous glioneuronal stalk which, even when found, was considered as an aberrant nerve root and was invariably left behind.…”