title: [Prevalence and features of the course of syringomyelia in the Samarkand region of the tuzbek SSR].
abstract: The paper is concerned with a clinico-statistical study of syringomyelia according to the data of neurological hospitals in the Samarkand region from 1931--1970. It was established that the portion of syringomyelia among other diseases of the nervous system is much lower (0.38%) than in other more northern regions of the country (3--7%). The author marks a significantly greater amount of patients among the city population rather than in the rural population (2/3) and a prevalence of non-natives over natives (more than 2/3). The development of syringomyelia is more milder, "benign", especially in the native population. Quite possibly this may be connected with the climatic-geographical and bio-geochemical traits of the Zarafshanskaya valley, which differs to a great extent from these indices of the territory between the Vyatka and Kama rivers where syringomyelia is frequently encountered.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013595:Syringomyelia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014610:Uzbekistan
vernacular_title: O rasprostranennosti i osobennostiakh techeniia siringomielii v Samarkandskoĭ oblasti Uzbekskoĭ SSR