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. |