The authors report the case of a 7 years old boy with cervical pain and tetraparesis progressing by two months. He presented an intraspinal cystic lesion from C4 to C6. Exeresis of the lesion was undergone by anterior way through a corpectomy of C5-C6 followed by reconstruction with bone graft of the iliac crest and metallic plaque. Anatomic diagnosis of the lesion was enterogenous cyst. Aspects of clinical presentation, embryology and treatment of these cysts are discussed.
enterogenous cyst; neurenteric cyst; spinal cord tumors; split notocord syndrome