title: Acute brainstem symptoms associated with cervical syringomyelia.
abstract: Syringomyelia classically presents with slowly progressing dissociated sensory and upper and lower motor deficits. Atypical and acute manifestations have rarely been described. We report here on 3 patients with syringomyelia, who had acute and atypical brainstem symptoms with regard to the underlying disease. These symptoms occurred after acute elevation of the intrathoracic and intra-abdominal pressure, respectively, and remitted subsequently. Vertebrobasilar ischemia was initially suspected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany. Saskia.M.Meves@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Meves
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Postert
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Przuntek
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Büttner
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000098:blood supply; D020526:Brain Stem Infarctions / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009333:Neck; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013595:Syringomyelia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*