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Post-Traumatic Syringomyelia JNNP 57:1095-1098, Squier,M.V.&Lehr,R.P., 1994 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract Post-traumatic syringomyelia was previously thought to be an infrequent but serious sequel to spinal cord injury.Clinical and CT studies have shown an incidence of between 1%and 5%,but more recently MRI has suggested an incidence of up to 22%.Twenty spinal cords have been e examined after death from two days to 43 years after injury.Four had syrinxes,20%of the series,approaching the incidence found by MRI.The acute and chronic pathological changes after trauma are described.Post-traumatic syringomyelia seems to develop from cores of necrotic tissue(myelomalacic cores)rather than lysis of hematoma.The mechanism of extension of syrinxes remains unexplained.

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