Evaluation of syringomyelia with metrizamide computed tomographic myelography.
Nineteen cases of cervical syringomyelia, five surgically confirmed, were examined with metrizamide computed tomographic myelography. While a collapsed cord appeared to be a very reliable finding in this series, those cases with distended cords can be studied with sequential scans (at 3 and 24 hr), allowing the distinction between syrinx and cystic intramedullary tumor by the presence or absence of delayed cyst opacification.
D000328:Adult; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007278:Injections, Spinal; D008793:Metrizamide; D009192:Myelography / Q000379:methods*; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D013595:Syringomyelia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D008793:Metrizamide