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    <language>eng</language>
    <publisher>Science and Education Publishing</publisher>
    <journalTitle>American Journal of Medical Case Reports</journalTitle>
    <eissn>2374-216X</eissn>
    <publicationDate>2019-09-20</publicationDate>
    <volume>7</volume>
    <issue>12</issue>
    <startPage>317</startPage>
    <endPage>319</endPage>
    <doi>10.12691/ajmcr-7-12-4</doi>
    <publisherRecordId>AJMCR20197124</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng">Partial Currarino Syndrome in Adulthood Mistaken for a Simple Presacral Mass</title>
    <authors>
      <author>
        <name>Alaa El-Kheir</name>
        <email>alaa.kheir@live.com, khaled.charif@hotmail.com</email>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
      </author>
      <author>
        <name>Charif Khaled</name>
        <email>alaa.kheir@live.com, khaled.charif@hotmail.com</email>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
      </author>
      <author>
        <name>Raia Doumit</name>
        <affiliationId>2</affiliationId>
      </author>
      <author>
        <name>Chawki Nohra</name>
        <affiliationId>3</affiliationId>
      </author>
      <author>
        <name>Antoine Khoneisser</name>
        <affiliationId>3</affiliationId>
      </author>
    </authors>
    <affiliationsList>
      <affiliationName affiliationId="1">General Surgery Department, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon</affiliationName>
      <affiliationName affiliationId="2">Diagnostic Radiology Department, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon</affiliationName>
      <affiliationName affiliationId="3">Neurosurgery Department, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon</affiliationName>
    </affiliationsList>
    <abstract language="eng">Currarino syndrome is a rare congenital disease and its appearance in adulthood is exceptional. It is neglected in the typical differential diagnosis of a presacral mass. This results in severe complications following simple mass resection.</abstract>
    <fullTextUrl format="pdf">http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajmcr/7/12/4/ajmcr-7-12-4.pdf</fullTextUrl>
    <keywords language="eng">
      <keyword>currarino syndrome</keyword>
      <keyword>congenital disease</keyword>
      <keyword>sacrococcygeal agenesis</keyword>
      <keyword>presacral mass</keyword>
      <keyword>epidermoid tumor</keyword>
    </keywords>
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