differing opinions re syrinx

[Guest guest]

Continuing with my report on my visit to Dr. Heffez, a note about the

syrinx issue:

I posted a few weeks back after my visit to a local neurosurgeon who told

me that, although not reported on the radiology report, I had a syrinx,

and he showed it to me. Well I could see something but not much, so I

started reading up on syringiomyelia...

Anyway I mentioned this to Heffez while we were looking at my films and

he said, there's no syrinx there. He thought is was " signal changes " due

to poor circulation in the cord. This is not hard for me to believe

because along with the fact that Heffez has a lot more experience than

the other nsg I saw, what the latter was calling syrinx was awfully

vague-looking.

One more thing to be relieved about. But also another example of how

these things are read differently depending on who you show them to!!

Carolyn A.

cervical stenosis, dysautonomia....

scheduled for surgery w/Heffez

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