Faun tail--isolated sacrolumbar hypertrichosis in pediatric endocrinology
Gordeladze, M.R.; Khachapuridze, N.S.; Pagava, I.K.
Georgian Medical News 166: 74-77
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 1512-0112 PMID: 19202225 Document Number: 633318
3 girls with Faun tail are presented. Local hairiness in the sacrolumbar area was associated with spinal dysraphism, tethered cord, intradural lipoma, meningomyelocele and dyastematomyelia, all confirmed by MRI. Moderate neurological findings were present in one case only. In all the cases the primary diagnosis of the principal spinal pathology was established by endocrinologist (two patients were referred by dermatologists, one by ortopaedist). This indicates that a physician of any specialty may have to establish the primary neurological diagnosis. Hence, the awareness of the possible connection between the neurological pathology and the cutaneous symptoms, including local hypertrichosis, is of major significance.