Treatment of Syringomyelia due to Chiari Type I Malformation with Syringo-Subarachnoid-Peritoneal Shunt.
Chiari type I malformation is a tonsillar herniation more than 3 mm from the level of foramen magnum, with or without concurrent syringomyelia. Different surgical treatments have been developed for syringomyelia secondary to Chiari's malformations: craniovertebral decompression with or without plugging of the obex, syringo-subarachnoid, syringo-peritoneal, and theco-peritoneal shunt placement. Shunt placement procedures are useful for neurologically symptomatic large-sized syrinx. In this paper, authors define the first successful treatment of a patient with syringomyelia due to Chiari type I malformation using a pre-defined new technique of syringo-subarachnoid-peritoneal shunt with T-tube system.
Department of Neurosurgery, Bahcesehir University Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey.
Akın
A
Akakın
Department of Neurosurgery, Bahcesehir University Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey.
Baran
B
Yılmaz
Department of Orthopedics-Spine Center, University of California at San Francisco, CA, USA.
Murat Şakir
MŞ
Ekşi
Department of Neurosurgery, Bahcesehir University Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey.
Türker
T
Kılıç
Chiari malformation; Craniovertebral junction; Decompression; Shunt; Syringomyelia