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Skull and Spine Disorders

Etiology: idiopathic; trauma, back surgery (spinal fusion, laminectomy), meningitis, subarachnoid hemorrhage (spinal tap, epidural steroid injections, difficult epidural blood patch); Pantopaque® myelography (pre 1986) inflammatory effect potentiated by presence of blood

M >F spinal / epidural anesthesia for delivery

Associated with: syrinx

Location: most easily seen in lumbar region (= cauda equina)

Myelo:

CT:

MR:

Cx: syringomyelia