title: [Clinical characteristics of syringomyelia in the Bashkir disease cluster].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze clinical characteristics of syringomyelia based on the data of the Bashkir Disease Cluster.
  
  
  METHODS
  Authors present the results of examination of 712 patients from the population of Bashkortostan. Disease duration varied in the wide range. In most of the patients, first symptoms usually occurred between 10 and 30 years old.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Clinical symptoms included sensory and motor disorders, trophic changes of the skin, joint and bone deformations. A mixed form with lesion localization in the cervical-thoracic region of the spine and slowly progressive course was most frequent.
authors.affiliation: Bashkiria State Medical University, Ufa.
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Mirsaev
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D001486:Bashkiria / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013595:Syringomyelia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D055815:Young Adult