A case of neurofibroma of the filum terminale associated with syringomyelia is described. The relationship of spinal cord tumours and syringomyelia is discussed and a possible mode of formation of the syrinx in the present case is suggested.

We aimed to describe a patient without Chiari malformation who was treated via craniocervical decompression and by creating cisterna manga with an autologous fascia graft, and who displayed a clinical and radiological improvement in the post-operative period. Syringomyelia is a chronic and progressive disease with cavitation and gliosis in the spinal cord. It is more common in adulthood and oft...

OBJECTIVE  The pathophysiology of arachnoiditis ossificans (AO) and its association with syringomyelia remains a rare and poorly understood phenomenon. Here, we present a case of AO associated with syringomyelia, a review of literature, and a discussion of current understanding of disease pathophysiology. METHODS  A literature review was performed using MEDLINE (January 1900-May 2010) and Emb...

UNLABELLED Patients with syringomyelia may have diverse etiology and experience a variety of symptoms. This report describes two cases of syringomyelia in patients with different profiles, presentations and pathomechanisms. KEYWORDS Syrigomyelia; Syrinx; Arachnoid cyst; Arnold-Chiari.

Although cervical spondylosis is an extremely common condition causing spinal cord compression, it is rarely involved in syringomyelia formation. Here we describe a case of syringomyelia associated with cervical spondylosis.

Syringoperitoneal shunting has been used in the treatment of 4 patients with idiopathic syringomyelia. The procedures have been performed without morbidity or mortality. Postoperative observation, ranging from 7 to 23 months, has not revealed progression of symptoms or failure of the shunt. The pathophysiological theories of syringomyelia are discussed, and various surgical procedures for syrin...

This paper presents three patients with a triad of syringomyelia, midline posterior fossa cysts, and hydrocephalus. In the first patient, the clinical presentation was related to spinal cord cavitation, and the cranial anomalies were unexpected. In cases 2 and 3, the brain anomalies dominated the clinical picture, and syringomyelia was unexpected. These cases show that an examination of the who...

Pathological cavitation of the spinal cord was first called “ syringomyelia “ by Ollivier in 1837. He did not distinguish between cysts and central canal dilation, because the canal was not recognised as a normal structure until 1859. The first known description of the clinical signs was that of Duchenne (1872), though he called it progressive muscular atrophy. Schultze (1882) correlated the pa...

We report a case of 64-year-old Tunisian woman with a 12-year history of rheumatoid arthritis, who presented with a 3-month history of increasing inflammatory neck pain. Neurological examination noted a quadripyramidal syndrome without any neurological deficit. Radiographs of her neck showed ananterior atlantoaxial subluxation (A). MRI revealed a pannus around the atlanto axial joint. It also s...

Recently, Iskandar et al described "Chiari Zero malformation" to characterize some kind of syringomyelia that exhibits classic Chiari-type symptoms with little to no herniation, but there is some dilemma about whether it is actually present. We presented a 38-year-old-man with a diagnosis of cervical syringomyelia. In his neurological examination, there was monoparesia at the left leg together ...