REVIEW ARTICLE

Year : 2010  |  Volume : 1  |  Issue : 1  |  Page : 58-63

Neurenteric cysts of the spine

Jesse J Savage¹, James N Casey², Ian T McNeill², Jonathan H Sherman^1
1Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
²University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA,USA

Neurenteric cysts account for 0.7-1.3% of spinal axis tumors. These rare lesions result from the inappropriate partitioning of the embryonic notochordal plate and presumptive endoderm during the third week of human development. Heterotopic rests of epithelium reminiscent of gastrointestinal and respiratory tissue lead to eventual formation of compressive cystic lesions of the pediatric and adult spine. 

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