Treatment of symptomatic syringomyelia with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report with magnetic resonance scan correlation

C S Ogilvy; L F Borges

doi:10.1227/00006123-198804000-00023

Treatment of symptomatic syringomyelia with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report with magnetic resonance scan correlation

Neurosurgery. 1988 Apr;22(4):748-50. doi: 10.1227/00006123-198804000-00023.

Authors

C S Ogilvy¹, L F Borges

Affiliation

¹ Neurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

PMID: 3374787
DOI: 10.1227/00006123-198804000-00023

Abstract

This report describes a patient with communicating syringomyelia associated with enlarged cerebral ventricles who was managed by placing a ventriculoperitoneal shunt. His clinical improvement was rapid and dramatic. A comparison of preoperative and postoperative magnetic resonance scans documents shrinkage of the cervical syrinx.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Arnold-Chiari Malformation / diagnosis
Arnold-Chiari Malformation / surgery*
Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Syringomyelia / diagnosis
Syringomyelia / surgery*

Grants and funding

K08NS00990/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States