[Post-traumatic syringomyelobulbia and inferior vertical nystagmus]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 1993;149(5):355-8.
[Article in French]

Abstract

A case of post-traumatic cervico-thoracic syringomyelia was complicated, 3 years after the injury, by a bulbar extension manifested by a downbeat vertical nystagmus which became a source of disabling oscillopsia. The syringobulbia was visualized at MRI. The usefulness of syringostomy in such a case is discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brachial Plexus
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Medulla Oblongata*
  • Nystagmus, Pathologic / etiology*
  • Paralysis / etiology
  • Spinal Cord Injuries / complications*
  • Spinal Fusion
  • Syringomyelia / diagnosis
  • Syringomyelia / etiology*
  • Syringomyelia / surgery