PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - M L Aubin
AU  - J Vignaud
AU  - C Jardin
AU  - D Bar
TI  - Computed tomography in 75 clinical cases of syringomyelia.
DP  - 1981 May 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 199--204
VI  - 2
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/2/3/199.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/2/3/199.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1981 May 01; 2
AB  - Seventy-five patients with a clinical diagnosis of syringomyelia were examined by computed tomography after intrathecal injection of metrizamide. A central cavity was demonstrated in 67 patients. Tilting the patient head down did not increase the rate of cavity opacification. This evidence favors transneural migration of metrizamide into the cavity. The spinal cord was measurably enlarged in only a minority of the patients. In some, the cavity appeared to have clefts or wall defects. These results are discussed according to the etiopathogenic theories advanced by Gardner, Aboulker, and Williams.