Study design: Review and analysis of seven cases of syringomyelia treated surgically. Objective: To demonstrate the beneficial role of decompressive surgery for the altered cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) ...

Axial MRI of the Lumbar Spine - T2 weighted image at the L4 level. On this view centered over the L4-L5 disk, one can see well the cauda equina surrounded by CSF (note that CSF is bright on ...

Chiari malformation, an anomaly of the posterior cranial fossa, also known as Arnold–Chiari malformation, was described in autopsies by Hans Chiari, an Austrian pathologist, in 1891. He defined four ...

When judging the utility of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer disease, it may be less a question of if, but rather when and in whom. In this week’s Journal of Neuroscience, scientists report ...