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  • Title: Cordectomy for post-traumatic syringomyelia.
    Author: Kasai Y, Kawakita E, Morishita K, Uchida A.
    Journal: Acta Neurochir (Wien); 2008 Jan; 150(1):83-6; discussion 86. PubMed ID: 18058060.
    Abstract:
    We performed cordectomy, a surgical technique that is infrequently used at present, for a patient with post-traumatic syringomyelia (following complete paraplegia of both lower limbs due to dislocation fracture of the 9th thoracic vertebra), yielding a favourable result. We recommend cordectomy as a surgical technique to which spinal surgeons should give utmost consideration for patients with post-traumatic syringomyelia demonstrating progressive symptoms assumed to be attributable to the syrinx and with an anatomically transected spinal cord of the mid-to-lower thoracic vertebral level.
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