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Hiroshi Kuroki1.   

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Year:  2014        PMID: 25540553      PMCID: PMC4271396     

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Neurosci Rural Pract        ISSN: 0976-3155


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In this article, the authors introduced a rare case of sylingomyelia secondary to cervical spondylosis.[1] Further, they performed literature review and discovered only 15 cases of other sylingomyelia secondary to spinal cord compression. Although sylingomyelia associated with Chiari malformation is occasionally encountered, these cases are extremely uncommon. Therefore, I guess this paper should be published because of rarity. However, a couple of questions are still remaining unresolved. It is broadly well known that sylingomyelia associated with Chiari malformation sometimes causes scoliosis.[23] The prevalence of scoliosis accompanied with sylingomyelia was previously reported 2.8-25.8%.[456] Whereas, the prevalence of sylingomyelia secondary to spinal cord compression is unknown. The authors speculated the pathophysiology of sylingomyelia secondary to spinal cord compression by bibliographic consideration. But the discussion of pathophysiology of sylingomyelia is also incomplete because most diseases by spinal cord compression do not always have sylingomyelia. In the sylingomyelia associated with Chiari malformation, overcrowding in the posterior cranial fossa due to a normal-sized hindbrain induces a downward herniation of the brain as well as occlusion of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow across the foramen magnum.[7] This obstructs natural flow of CSF and may be responsible for the origin and maintenance of syringomyelia by the pulsatile pressure waves forcing CSF into the spinal cord through the perivascular and interstitial spaces.[8] Moreover, some sylingomyelia associated with Chiari malformation are spontaneously diminishing. In scoliosis cases, Tokunaga et al.[9] reported the size of sylingomyelia associated with Chiari malformation decreased 50% or more in 14 of 27 cases in accordance with growth that promotes elevation of the tonsils. The next step that we should do is accumulation of similar cases. Amassed data must contribute to properly elucidate prevalence, mechanism, and established management of this disorder. I hope various questions with regard to this pathology will be solved in the future.
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1.  Pathogenesis of Chiari malformation: a morphometric study of the posterior cranial fossa.

Authors:  M Nishikawa; H Sakamoto; A Hakuba; N Nakanishi; Y Inoue
Journal:  J Neurosurg       Date:  1997-01       Impact factor: 5.115

2.  Routine preoperative MRI and SEP studies in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

Authors:  W J Shen; G S McDowell; S W Burke; D B Levine; A M Chutorian
Journal:  J Pediatr Orthop       Date:  1996 May-Jun       Impact factor: 2.324

3.  Incidence of neural axis abnormalities in infantile and juvenile patients with spinal deformity. Is a magnetic resonance image screening necessary?

Authors:  P Gupta; L G Lenke; K H Bridwell
Journal:  Spine (Phila Pa 1976)       Date:  1998-01-15       Impact factor: 3.468

4.  Natural history of scoliosis in children with syringomyelia.

Authors:  M Tokunaga; S Minami; K Isobe; H Moriya; H Kitahara; Y Nakata
Journal:  J Bone Joint Surg Br       Date:  2001-04

5.  MRI of 'idiopathic' juvenile scoliosis. A prospective study.

Authors:  S C Evans; M A Edgar; M A Hall-Craggs; M P Powell; B A Taylor; H H Noordeen
Journal:  J Bone Joint Surg Br       Date:  1996-03

6.  Pathophysiology of syringomyelia associated with Chiari I malformation of the cerebellar tonsils. Implications for diagnosis and treatment.

Authors:  E H Oldfield; K Muraszko; T H Shawker; N J Patronas
Journal:  J Neurosurg       Date:  1994-01       Impact factor: 5.115

7.  Scoliosis associated with syringomyelia.

Authors:  S Arai; Y Ohtsuka; H Moriya; H Kitahara; S Minami
Journal:  Spine (Phila Pa 1976)       Date:  1993-09-15       Impact factor: 3.468

8.  Syringomyelia secondary to cervical spondylosis: Case report and review of literature.

Authors:  Savitr Sastri Bhagavathula Venkata; Arivazhagan Arimappamagan; Spiros Lafazanos; Nupur Pruthi
Journal:  J Neurosci Rural Pract       Date:  2014-11
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