Type 1.5 Split Cord Malformations : Bridging the Gap

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J Korean Neurosurg Soc. 2022;65(5):760-760

Publication date (electronic) : 2022 August 22

doi : https://doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2022.0034

Mengchun Sun^1,2, Benzhang Tao¹, Tianbao Luo³, Gan Gao¹, Aijia Shang^,1

¹Department of Neurosurgery, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

²Medical School, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

³Department of Neurosurgery, Yuquan Hospital, Beijing, China

Address for reprints : Aijia Shang Department of Neurosurgery, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100853, China Tel : +86-10 66875540, Fax : +86-10 57976556, E-mail : shangaj@126.com

We are glad to receive your insightful comments and sincerely thank you for your support on the use of the nomenclature, that is type 1.5 split cord malformation. We also appreciate your hard work on the summary of these rare cases and the proposition of this new subtype of split cord malformation. We recommend this nomenclature and believe that clinicians will deeply understand the characteristics of this special subtype with the identification of more similar cases.