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What is the history of Syringomyelia?
History of Syringomyelia: when and how it was discovered, and the milestones in research since, medically reviewed.
It was discovered 200 years ago during an autopsy. The disease seems to remain a mystery. Many many doctors are not convinced of the symptoms. Hence why there is no real treatment or cure.
Posted Mar 22, 2018 by Tammie 4000
Charles-Prosper Ollivier d'Angers came up with the term "syringomyelia" in 1827 to describe the presence of a cavity in the spinal cord, which he considered pathological in all cases. In 1882, Otto von Kahler and Friedrich Schultze defined the clinical syndrome, which associated Duchenne-Aran muscular dystrophy of a limb with sensory dissociation. They explained the syndrome by the presence of an abnormal cavity, distinct from that found in the spinal cord of healthy adults. Although Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne and Jean-Martin Charcot had observed cases in France, both failed to identify syringomyelia, whereas a family physician, Augustin Morvan, described the clinical symptomatology using the term "analgesic whitlow" in 1883. Based on several dozen observations that they collated in their remarkable theses, Anna Bumler in Zurich in 1887 and Isidore Bruhl in Paris in 1890 established the complete clinical picture of syringomyelia, covering anatomic functional and pathological aspects. Whereas Charcot isolated pathologies by correlating clinical signs with anatomo-pathological lesions, the isolation of syringomyelia initially involved an anatomo-pathological concept before the semiology was defined.
Posted Sep 20, 2018 by Austyn 3500
