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JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 184, 期 2, 页码 189-196出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(01)00443-9
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multiple sclerosis; elderly patient; syringomyelia; magnetic resonance imaging; demyelination; autopsy
We report an elderly woman with multiple sclerosis who showed an extensive cavity formation in the midthoracic cord in addition to multiple abnormal intensity signals in the central nervous system on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The cavity decreased in size in response to corticosteroid therapy with an improvement in neurological symptoms. The autopsy demonstrated a slit-like cavity lined with no ependymal cells on the luminal surface in the lower cervical to midthoracic cord, with circumferentially distributed demyelinative lesions, leading to the pathological diagnosis of secondary syringomyelia. Ln this patient a limited necrosis formed in the spinal cord might have developed into a cavity formation with edematous fluid leading to subsequent episodes of neurological exacerbation. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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