XXVI. Syringomyelie

Aberrant nerve fibres within the spinal cord

“…He traced the origin of these fibres from the posterior root entry zone and decided that they arose from axons of the cell bodies in the posterior root ganglia. Similar findings in syringomyelia were subsequently recorded by Schlesinger (1902), Bischofswerder (1901), Jonesco-Sisesti (1929), . Similar bundles of nerve fibres within and around the spinal cord have been described in other disease processes: in tabes dorsalis by Nageotte (1899), in Pott's paraplegia by Fickler (1900), in malignant cord compression by Bielschowsky (1901) and by Druckman and Mair (1953), in traumatic cord lesions by Henneberg (1907), by Roussy and Lhermitte (1918), and by Klaue (1949), in multiple sclerosis by Berchenko (1935), and in cervical spondylosis by .…”

Hereditary Sensory Radicular Neuropathy

“…The one necropsy revealed a small fissure in the grey matter of the spinal cord which was interpreted as a syringomyelic cavity. Schlesinger (1902) in his monograph on syringomyelia did not accept this as evidence of that disease, which he denies may be familial. I would agree that the description of Verhoogen and Vandervelde is unconvincing, and note that the dorsal root ganglia were not examined.…”