A special case on the use of ultrasonography for evaluation of the spinal canal and its contents in adults.
In this article we present a 70-year-old man with a history of severe trauma in the upper thoracic spine. This patient presented at our emergency department with a leaking wound in the lower neck after removal of osteosynthetic material. He had undergone a laminectomy of the third thoracic vertebra in the past. As an incidental finding, while examining the region of the lower neck by transcutaneous ultrasonography, we diagnosed a post-traumatic syrinx of the spinal medulla at this level.
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Department of Radiology, University Hospital Pellenberg, Weligerveld 1, 3212 Pellenberg, Belgium. Veerle.provoost@uz.kuleuven.ac.be
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Brys
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Kiekens
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D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013115:Spinal Canal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013595:Syringomyelia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery; D014463:Ultrasonography