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The authors report the case of an 18-month-old girl with an extensive IASC associated with an epidermoid cyst extending from T-11 to S-2 without evidence of a dermal sinus or history of clinically apparent systemic infection. To their knowledge, this is the first case report of an IASC without a condition facilitating either direct contamination via a dermal sinus or hemopoietic spread from an infectious focus outside the central nervous system. 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