Abstract
Three cases of the cervical syringomyelia that we have experienced recently, were reported and discussed.Case 1. A female, aged 34 years was drain aged by syringotomy. 7ml syrinx fluid with 5g/dl protein was punctured.Case 2. A male, aged 29 years of quadriplegia with diaphragma-respiration was drainaged by syringotomy. 3ml syrinx fluid with 380mg/dl protein and 43/3 cells was punctured.Case 3. A female, aged 42 years of hemiplegia complicated with internal hydrocephalus, moderate odontoid invagination and scoliosis was shunted by ventriculoperitoneal approach.Case 1 was diagnosed cystic glioma by characteristics of syrinx contents, case 2 idiopathic syringomyelia by nothing with trigger and genetic disease and case 3 syringohydromyelia by complications and atrophied cord.Myelopathy score was improved from 10/17 to 15/17 in case 1, but in case 2 and case 3 was unchanged. Early diagnosis and early operation was desired.
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