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Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Spinal Cord Diseases > Syringomyelia

Preferred term

Syringomyelia  

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  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Myelosyringoses
  • Myelosyringosis
  • Syringomyelus

Scope note

  • Longitudinal cavities in the spinal cord, most often in the cervical region, which may extend for multiple spinal levels. The cavities are lined by dense, gliogenous tissue and may be associated with SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; spinal cord traumatic injuries; and vascular malformations. Syringomyelia is marked clinically by pain and PARESTHESIA, muscular atrophy of the hands, and analgesia with thermoanesthesia of the hands and arms, but with the tactile sense preserved (sensory dissociation). Lower extremity spasticity and incontinence may also develop. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1269)

In other languages

  • syringomyelia

    Finnish

  • selkäytimen ja aivorungon ontelotauti
  • selkäytimen lokerotauti
  • selkäytimen ontelotauti
  • selkäytimen tai aivorungon ontelotauti
  • syringobulbia
  • syringomyeli och syringobulbi
  • syringomyelia et syringobulbia
  • syringomyelia sive syringobulbia
  • Syringomyeli

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013595

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