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What is a syringomyelia?

What is a syringomyelia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) A disorder in which a cyst or cavity forms within the spinal cord, possibly leading to stiffness or paralysis.
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Treatment of posttraumatic syringomyelia with extradural decompressive surgery.
This destroys the spinal cord in an irregular pattern, causing the unusual symptoms associated with syringomyelia.
This common problem accompanies long-term syringomyelia and involves loss of upward gaze because the neck becomes fused in a cervico-occipital malformation.
A frequent complication of symptom progression is the person's ongoing need to adjust to evolving functional losses that accompany syringomyelia.
Neuropathic arthropathy progressing with multiple joint involvement in the upper extremity due to syringomyelia and type I Arnold-Chiari malformation.
Syringomyelia is the buildup of spinal fluid in a spinal cord cavity called a syrinx.

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