Spinal cord untethering and midline myelotomy for delayed, symptomatic post-traumatic syringomyelia due to retained ballistic fragments: case report.
Tej D AzadJoshua MateriBrian Y HwangDimitrios MathiosKurt R LehnerLandon HansenLydia J BernhardtYuanxuan XiaPavan P ShahNivedha V KannapadiNicholas TheodorePublished in: Spinal cord series and cases (2022)
Post-traumatic syringomyelia is potentially morbid sequalae of spinal cord injuries. Suspicion for post-traumatic syringomyelia should be maintained in patients with delayed, progressive neurologic deficits. In this setting, surgical intervention may require extradural and intradural procedures to mitigate neural compression along the dilated central canal by the syrinx.