Cervical syringohydromyelia secondary to chronic supratentorial subdural hematoma.

BACKGROUND

Syringohydromyelia associated with supratentorial space-occupying lesion has rarely been reported. We present a 28-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with head and neck pain. Upon examination, there was only left central facial paralisia, with no evidence of papilledema.

RESULTS

Cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a left parietal and temporal chronic subdural hematoma (CSH) with a 1-cm shift to the right from midline. Also, cervical MRI revealed a syringohydromyelic cavity at the level of C6/7. The patient was operated on for supratentorial CSH. A follow-up cervical MRI revealed no syringohydromyelic cavity after 2 months. No neurological deficit was reported, and overall outcome was excellent.

CONCLUSIONS

Syringohydromyelia was secondary to a space-occupying lesion in our case of supratentorial chronic subdural hematoma.