Do human beings have a tail?
Human tail is an established caudal body anomaly. Having a baby with a tail causes emotional and social burden on the family. Embryological development explanation of human tail makes its management feasible and easy. Early detection and surgical consultation is the key for proper treatment and we h...
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| author | Mohammed Hamada Takrouney Omnia Hussein Thabet Mohamed Abdelkader Osman Hala Saad Abdel-Ghaffar Mahmoud Mohamed Mostafa |
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| description | Human tail is an established caudal body anomaly. Having a baby with a tail causes emotional and social burden on the family. Embryological development explanation of human tail makes its management feasible and easy. Early detection and surgical consultation is the key for proper treatment and we have to present suitable social orientations concerning these intriguing rare cases. We reported a case of male infant one-month old with pseudo-human tail treated with surgical excision with smooth postoperative sequelae. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d27ce274f904471a968374f6c40ea31f2023-03-18T04:41:01ZengElsevierJournal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports2213-57662023-04-0191102571Do human beings have a tail?Mohammed Hamada Takrouney0Omnia Hussein Thabet1Mohamed Abdelkader Osman2Hala Saad Abdel-Ghaffar3Mahmoud Mohamed Mostafa4Department of Pediatric Surgery, Assiut University Pediatric Hospital, Assiut, Egypt; Corresponding author. Pediatric Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.Department of Pediatric Surgery, Assiut University Pediatric Hospital, Assiut, EgyptDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Assiut University Pediatric Hospital, Assiut, EgyptAnesthesia and Intensive Care Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, EgyptDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Assiut University Pediatric Hospital, Assiut, EgyptHuman tail is an established caudal body anomaly. Having a baby with a tail causes emotional and social burden on the family. Embryological development explanation of human tail makes its management feasible and easy. Early detection and surgical consultation is the key for proper treatment and we have to present suitable social orientations concerning these intriguing rare cases. We reported a case of male infant one-month old with pseudo-human tail treated with surgical excision with smooth postoperative sequelae.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213576622003980Human tailTrue and pseudotailCaudal body anomalies |
| spellingShingle | Mohammed Hamada Takrouney Omnia Hussein Thabet Mohamed Abdelkader Osman Hala Saad Abdel-Ghaffar Mahmoud Mohamed Mostafa Do human beings have a tail? Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports Human tail True and pseudotail Caudal body anomalies |
| title | Do human beings have a tail? |
| title_full | Do human beings have a tail? |
| title_fullStr | Do human beings have a tail? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do human beings have a tail? |
| title_short | Do human beings have a tail? |
| title_sort | do human beings have a tail |
| topic | Human tail True and pseudotail Caudal body anomalies |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213576622003980 |
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