A 28-year-old female patient presented with severe neck and back pain in 2003. No abnormality was observed at neurological examination. Syringomyelia in the cervical region was determined at MRI. MRI examination of the cranial, thoracal and lumbosacral regions was normal. The patient refused surgery and was followed up. A control cervical MRI 17 months later showed that the syringomyelia had di...

Syringomyelia and syringobulbia are diseases in which there is a tubular cavitation of the spinal cord and medulla. CT with intrathecal injection of water-soluble contrast material (CT myelography) and, more recently, MR imaging have led to a revolution in the diagnosis of syringomyelia. Syringobulbia is much rarer than syringomyelia and usually associated with it [1]. Radiologic demonstration ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The development of syringomyelia has been associated with changes in CSF flow dynamics in the spinal subarachnoid space. However, differences in CSF flow velocity between patients with posttraumatic syringomyelia and healthy participants remains unclear. The aim of this work was to define differences in CSF flow above and below a syrinx in participants with posttraumatic ...

The association between cerebellar medulloblastoma and syringomyelia is uncommon and only found in pediatric patients. To date, adult medulloblastoma associated with syringomyelia has not been reported in the literature. Paroxysmal bradycardia is an uncommon clinical manifestation in posterior fossa tumors and likely to be vagally mediated via brainstem preganglionic cardiac motor neurons. This...

A 63 year old man who suffered from syringomyelia related to post-meningitic spinal arachnoiditis caused by Candida tropicalis is reported. The clinical syndrome of syringomyelia developed gradually and a definite diagnosis was delayed for more than 10 years. The patient has partially recovered after surgical treatment. This form of fungal infection and its delayed neurological complication in ...

INTRODUCTION Syringomyelia is a condition characterised by fluid filled cavities (syrinxes or syringes) within the central spinal cord and the resulting damage produces clinical signs of pain and neurological deficits. Since the increase in availability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), syringomyelia is an increasingly common diagnosis in veterinary medicine [1, 2] The most common cause of s...

Syringomyelia is a rare condition in which a cyst forms within your spinal cord, secondary syringomyelia following Tuberculousis is very rare. In the present paper, we report a case of tuberculous meningoencephalitis in a 30 year-old Morrocan male complicated six months after under anti-bacillary treatment by progressive quadriplegia due to granulomatous arachnoiditis. The spinal MRI showed an ...

In several reports the authors have suggested occasional familial aggregation of syringomyelia and/or Chiari 1 malformation (CM1). Familial aggregation is one characteristic of traits that have an underlying genetic basis. The authors provide evidence for familial aggregation of CM1 and syringomyelia (CM1/S) in a large series of families, establishing that there may be a genetic component to CM...

The features or mechanisms of dyshidrosis have not been sufficiently clarified. Neither has the difference between hyperhidrosis and hypohidrosis. To clarify the features and mechanisms of dyshidrosis (hyperhidrosis and hypohidrosis) in syringomyelia, the clinical features focusing on hidrosis of 30 patients with syringomyelia and Chiari malformation located from a syringomyelia database were p...

We present a 41-year-old man with Chiari type 1 malformation and cervical syringomyelia. Although the tonsillar herniation persisted, his syringomyelia was almost completely resolved during an eleven-year time period without surgery.