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Child's Nervous System
Published in: Child's Nervous System 3/2008

01-03-2008 | Commentary

Post-traumatic syringomyelia producing paraplegia in an infant

Author: Harold L. Rekate

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 3/2008

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The pathophysiology and treatment of post-traumatic syringomyelia are controversial. This case report by Sgouros and Sharif relates to syringomyelia resulting from an automobile accident with spinal injury to a 7-month-old baby. This may be the youngest patient in the literature with this type of injury. The authors attempted to treat the syrinx first with circumferential decompression and myelotomy and subsequently with a syrinx to subarachnoid shunt. In neither case was the treatment permanently successful either in radiographic decompression of the syrinx or functional improvement of the patient. …
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Metadata
Title
Post-traumatic syringomyelia producing paraplegia in an infant
Author
Harold L. Rekate
Publication date
01-03-2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Child's Nervous System / Issue 3/2008
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-007-0533-0

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