Spinal cord–spinal canal disproportion following treatment for syringomyelia associated with Chiari malformation type I: illustrative case
Arjun Nair, Vivek P Gupta, Devin Kolmetzky, Jennifer M Strahle, David D Limbrick · 2024
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Description
Arjun Nair and co-authors present a teenager whose spinal canal outgrew his cord in a 2024 case report. Chiari malformation type I, where brain tissue dips into the spine canal, often travels with a fluid cavity in the cord and a curving spine. The links among the three are still being worked out.
Their thirteen-year-old patient had all three. Four months after successful skull-base decompression, he bled around the brain with no vessel flaw found. His neck canal measured wider than norms. A spinal drain relieved his symptoms and no bleed returned. The cord shrank dramatically as the cavity collapsed, while the bony canal stayed wide. Four years on he does well. The team floats canal width as a clue.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Arjun Nair, Vivek P Gupta, Devin Kolmetzky, Jennifer M Strahle, David D Limbrick |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |