Syringomyelia is a chronic disease with progressive cavitation and clinical presentations of spinal cord injury.The paper describes clinical cases of a rare benign variant of syringomyelia with spontaneous cavity collapse.The peculiarity of the described clinical cases is childhood-onset of the disease, lack of progression and/or development of depileve easy clean myelopathic symptoms, mpu63zm/a and signs of syringomyelia cavity collapse according to magnetic resonance imaging findings.The authors designate this childhood-onset variant of the disease as abortive.
The tendency towards collapse in the cavity in these patients may be due to a single pathogenetic mechanism, which is of interest for a further investigation.