Post-traumatic syringomyelia is a clinical syndrome of delayed progressive myelopathy often corresponding to spinal segments distant from the level of original injury. Harvey Cushing described a syringomyelic syndrome in a patient with cervical gunshot wound. He viewed hematomyelia as the pathologic substrate of both – acute and delayed post-traumatic syringomyelia. The exact incidence is unkno...

Charcot arthropathy is a chronic, degenerative condition and is associated with decreased sensorial innervation. Numerous causes of this arthropathy have been described. Here we report a case of neuropathic arthropathy secondary to syringomyelia which was misdiagnosed as a soft tissue tumor and treated surgically and additionally with radiotherapy at another institution. The patient had clinica...

Japanese encephalitis (JE) shows characteristic brain lesions, including bilateral thalamus, midbrain, internal capsule, basal ganglia, and occasionally involves an anterior horn cell. We encountered a case of a 44-year-old man who initially presented with encephalitis, which was finally diagnosed as Japanese encephalomyelitis with syringomyelia. The patient showed severe motor weakness followe...