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  • Title: Syringomyelia following lumboureteral shunting for communicating hydrocephalus. Report of three cases.
    Author: Fischer EG, Welch K, Shillito J.
    Journal: J Neurosurg; 1977 Jul; 47(1):96-100. PubMed ID: 864509.
    Abstract:
    Three patients are described in whom syringomyelia was identified long after the treatment of communicating hydrocephalus by a lumboureteral shunt. The reason for syrinx formation in these cases could not be determined. In two there was either autopsy-proven or presumed evidence for arachnoiditis, and in the third patient the symptoms of syringomyelia were acutely aggravated by temporary obstruction of shunt. The development of a pressure drop from the intracranial compartment to the spinal compartment with crowding at the foramen magnum is also a suggested mechanism.
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