Graham Flint and Clare Rusbridge (eds.)Syringomyelia2014A Disorder of CSF Circulation10.1007/978-3-642-13706-8_24 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 24. Useful Contacts Graham Flint1 and Clare Rusbridge2, 3 (1) Department of Neurosurgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK (2)…
Fig. 21.1 MR flow imaging. (a) T2 sagittal MR image of craniovertebral junction and spinal canal. (b) Corresponding phase contrast MR images demonstrating caudal displacement of CSF (seen as black),…
(7.1) Hard vertebrae have a much larger Young’s modulus than the soft dura mater, as a greater stress (about 100 times) is required to produce the same strain. The concept…
Fig. 20.1 Hydromyelia, syringomyelia or syringohydromyelia? In these sections of the spinal cord from a dog, it can be seen that some segments appear to have a syringohydromyelia (top row,…
Prevalence (per 100,000 inhabitants) Geographical region Reference source 1.94 Japan Sakushima et al. (2012) 7 USA Kurtzke (1996) 8.2 New Zealand Brickell et al. (2006) 12.6 Tatarstan, Russia Authors’ data…
Worry and uncertainty prior to diagnosis Delays in diagnosis Relief and new worries when diagnosis is made Alarm about proposed brain surgery Value of talking to other patients Dependence upon…
Is a normal vaginal delivery safe? Can a spinal or epidural anaesthetic be used? Are any offspring likely to be affected as well? 15.2 Pathophysiology Symptoms of Chiari develop as…
Fig. 8.1 Origin of symptoms. This flowchart illustrates how both the syrinx and its underlying pathology combine to produce a variety of neurological symptoms (Courtesy of Graham Flint) 8.5 Differential…
Fig. 1.1 Title page of Stephanus ’ De dissectione partium corporis humani (1545) (Courtesy History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los…
Proposed inheritance Number of families Affected members Reference study Autosomal dominant with reduced penetrance 21 families Parent–child, siblings, avuncular pairsa, cousins Milhorat et al. (1999) 23 families Parent–child, siblings, avuncular…
