PMID- 10420404
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19990823
LR  - 20061115
IS  - 0028-3770 (Print)
IS  - 0028-3770 (Linking)
VI  - 45 Suppl 1
DP  - 1999 Jun
TI  - [Post-traumatic syringomyelia].
PG  - 58-66
AB  - Clinical and neuroradiological data were recorded in a series of 73 spinal cord 
      injured patients (33 in Nantes, 40 in Paris-Bicetre) in whom a post traumatic 
      syringomyelia (PTS) developed. These findings and a review of the literature 
      allow to point out some of the main characteristics in such a pathology. Clinical 
      symptoms are frequent, the commonest of them are pain and sensory loss but any 
      alteration of the neurological status after spinal cord injury has to be 
      considered. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), sagittal and axial T1 and T2 
      weighted images, confirms the diagnosis of syrinx (area with the same signal 
      intensity as CSF extending beyond the site of the initial lesion at least on 2 
      vertebral segments). MRI allows the diagnosis when it is performed in the follow 
      up of asymptomatic patients. So PTS is not infrequent in spinal cord injured 
      patients, for some of them in the first year after the trauma. The highest 
      incidence is found in patients with complete thoracic lesions. Pathophysiology 
      and surgical management have to take into account post traumatic residual 
      stenosis of the vertebral canal.
FAU - Perrouin-Verbe, B
AU  - Perrouin-Verbe B
AD  - Pole de Medecine Physique et de Readaptation, Hopital Saint-Jacques, CHU, Nantes.
FAU - Robert, R
AU  - Robert R
FAU - Lefort, M
AU  - Lefort M
FAU - Agakhani, N
AU  - Agakhani N
FAU - Tadie, M
AU  - Tadie M
FAU - Mathe, J F
AU  - Mathe JF
LA  - fre
PT  - Clinical Trial
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
TT  - Syringomyelie post-traumatique.
PL  - France
TA  - Neurochirurgie
JT  - Neuro-Chirurgie
JID - 0401057
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MH  - Male
MH  - Pain/etiology
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - Sensation Disorders/etiology
MH  - Spinal Cord Injuries/*complications/pathology/surgery
MH  - Spinal Stenosis/pathology/surgery
MH  - Syringomyelia/*etiology/pathology/surgery
EDAT- 1999/07/27 00:00
MHDA- 1999/07/27 00:01
CRDT- 1999/07/27 00:00
PHST- 1999/07/27 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1999/07/27 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1999/07/27 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 76103 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Neurochirurgie. 1999 Jun;45 Suppl 1:58-66.