Benign syringomyelia with the abortive type of the course
Benign syringomyelia with the abortive type of the course
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Syringomyelia is a chronic disease with progressive cavitation and clinical presentations of spinal cord injury.The paper describes clinical cases of a rare benign variant of syringomyelia Antenna Adaptor with spontaneous cavity collapse.The peculiarity of the described clinical cases is childhood-onset of the disease, lack of progression and/or development of myelopathic symptoms, and signs of syringomyelia cavity collapse according to magnetic resonance imaging findings.The authors designate this childhood-onset variant of the disease as Pizza Pans abortive.The tendency towards collapse in the cavity in these patients may be due to a single pathogenetic mechanism, which is of interest for a further investigation.