Table 1.
Review of published cases with cervical and thoracic spine DSTs; clinical presentation
| Cervical cases | Authors and year | Age and sex | Location | Early sign in childhood | Treatment in childhood | Reason for neurosurgical referral | Skin lesion | Tethe red cord | Syrinx |
| 1 | Mixter 1932 | 23M | C3 | NA | NA | NA | no | NA | NA |
| 2 | Sachs
1949 |
35M | C6–7 | developmental delay, flaky material discharge from skin lesion | no specific treatment | arm and leg numb. and weak, gait disturbance | yes | yes | NA |
| 3 | Eller
1987 |
23F | C1 | arm and leg weak., flaky material discharge from skin lesion | no specific treatment | H/A, arm and leg numb. and weak. | yes | yes | NA |
| 4 | Wu
1990 |
37M | C2–3 | R. arm intemittent numb. | surgery
(incomplete) |
arm and leg weak. and difficulty in breathing | yes | yes | NA |
| 5 | Wu
1990 |
43M | C3–4 | no | no specific treatment | arm weak. and numb., hand clumsiness | no | yes | yes |
| 6 | Ackerman 2002 | 16M | C5–6 | NA | surgery | worsening of myelopathy | previous incision | yes | NA |
| 7 | Ackerman 2002 | 41F | C2 | NA | surgery
(incomplete) |
neck pain, worsening of myelopathy | previous incision and CSF leak | yes | NA |
| 8 | Dagcinar 2008 | 24F | C3 | no | no specific treatment | neck pain | yes | yes | yes |
| 9 | Coumans 2011 | 52F | C6 | no | no specific treatment | arm numb. | yes | yes | yes |
| 10 | present case 2 2019 | 50M | C2 | NA | surgery
(incomplete) |
H/A, arm weak, and numb., hands clumsiness, gait disturbance | previous incision | yes | yes |
| Thoracic cases | Authors and year | Age and sex | Location | Early sign in childhood | Treatment in childhood | Reason for neurosurgical referral | Skin lesion | Tethe red cord | Syrinx |
| 11 | Ottonello 1933 | 20F | T3 | NA | NA | NA | yes | NA | NA |
| 12 | List
1941 |
19M | T2–3 | NA | NA | NA | yes | NA | NA |
| 13 | Tytus
1956 |
40M | T1 | NA | NA | NA | yes | yes | NA |
| 14 | Aydin
2001 |
24F | T1 | scoliosis (asymptomatic) | no specific treatment | arm weak. and scoliosis | yes | yes | yes |
| 15 | Manfredi 2001 | 73F | T2–4 | no | no specific treatment | arm and leg weak., gait distubance | yes | yes | yes |
| 16 | Ackerman 2002 | 55M | T11 | no | no specific treatment | pain, arm and leg weak. and numbness | no | yes | no |
| 17 | Kara
2003 |
37M | T2 | no | no specific treatment | H/A, arm numb.and spasm | yes | NA | no |
| 18 | present case 1
2019 |
34F | T1–2 | flaky material discharge from skin lesion | no specific treatment | H/A, back pain, leg pain, chest numbness | yes | yes | yes |
Abbreviations: NA= not available, numb. = numbness, weak. = weakness, H/A = headache