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Syringomyelia

Background

Syringomyelia refers to a cystic-like change (syrinx) within the spinal cord. It can have many different causes such as spinal cord trauma, spinal cord tumours, scoliosis, spinal cord tethering and Chiari malformation, or it may have no identifiable cause. Hydrocephalus can be an associated condition and treatment of it and some of the other associated problems above may resolve the syringomyelia.

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Medical text written December 2002 by Mr N Buxton. Last updated June 2007 by Mr N Buxton, Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK.

 

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