Open AccessAcute Idiopathic Syringomyelia: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Chen JuneKai,
Chen ChiaHsiu,
Lee ChiaLing,
Huang MaoHsiung,
Chen TienWen,
Weng MingCheng
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the kaohsiung journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.439
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 2410-8650
pISSN - 1607-551X
DOI - 10.1016/s1607-551x(09)70177-9
Subject(s) - medicine , syringomyelia , natural history , spinal trauma , pathophysiology , spinal cord , surgery , pathology , psychiatry
There have been isolated reports in the literature of the natural history and less than complete knowledge of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of syringomyelia. This article describes a clinically acute‐onset abnormal patient with localized dilatation of the central canal of the spinal cord who had no evidence of present or prior Chiari's malformation, trauma, infection, tumor, or other predisposing pathologic condition. It is suggested that this distinct condition be labeled “acute idiopathic syringomyelia”.