Katarzyna Kapica-Topczewska; Joanna Tarasiuk; Piotr Szydlik; Eugeniusz Tarasow; Jan Kochanowicz; Alina Kułakowska

doi:10.15557/AN.2019.0008

Multiple sclerosis and syringomyelia – a case report

Katarzyna Kapica-Topczewska¹, Joanna Tarasiuk¹, Piotr Szydlik², Eugeniusz Tarasow³, Jan Kochanowicz¹, Alina Kułakowska¹

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Aktualn Neurol 2019, 19 (1), p. 45–48

DOI: 10.15557/AN.2019.0008

Abstract

Syringomyelia is associated with more than two-thirds of Chiari malformation type I cases, and rarely with intramedullary neoplasm or post-traumatic cavitations. Some authors assume that syringomyelia, sometimes observed in patients with multiple sclerosis, is more likely to be a consequence of inflammatory-demyelinating pathology of the spinal cord. We describe a case of a 23-year-old patient who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis according to the McDonald criteria with syringomyelia and Chiari malformation type I. It to be a very rare case of co-occurrence of syringomyelia and multiple sclerosis as two separate unrelated independent diseases.

Keywords

multiple sclerosis, syringomyelia, Chiari malformation

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