Syringomyelia associated with postmeningitic spinal arachnoiditis. Filling of the syrinx through a communication with the subarachnoid space.
A patient is described who became paraplegic because of postmeningitic spinal arachnoiditis. Twelve years later, upper limb signs appeared. Syringomyelia of an unusal communicating type was demonstrated by air myelography: Air, introduced by lumbar route, filled syrinx up to the level of the first cervical vertebra, through a communication with the subarachnoid space at the thoracic level.
D000328:Adult; D001100:Arachnoiditis / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D013346:Subarachnoid Space; D013595:Syringomyelia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000150:complications*