Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Double dermal sinuses: a case study | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Double dermal sinuses a case study Mostafa El Khashab1 Farideh Nejat 2 and Abolhasan Ertiaei2 Address Department of Neurosurgery Hackensack University Medical Center New Jersey USA and 2Department of Neurosurgery Children s Hospital Medical Center Medical Sciences University of Tehran Tehran Iran Email Mostafa El Khashab - mostkash@ Farideh Nejat - nejat@ Abolhasan Ertiaei - faridnejat@ Corresponding author Published 26 August 2008 Received 4 January 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 281 doi 1752-1947-2-281 Accepted 26 August 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 281 2008 El Khashab et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Introduction Dermal sinus tracts are rare congenital lesions located in the midline characterized by a cutaneous pit or dimple. They occur all along the midline neuroaxis from the nasion and occipital area down to the lumbar and sacral regions most frequently in the lumbar and lumbosacral region. Case presentation Here we report a 5-year-old girl who presented with occasional headache. There were two dimples one on the dorsal aspect of her head and another on her neck. Conclusion Dermal sinuses are almost always singular and the co-existence of double dermal sinuses has not been reported previously. Introduction Dermal sinus tracts are rare congenital lesions located in the midline characterized by a cutaneous pit or dimple. They are defined as developmental anomalies in which the end result can be abnormal communication between the dermis and intracranial .
