The diagnostic value of screening the subarachnoid space in syringomyelia and other diseases of the spinal cord and its meninges

: The paper is concerned with the results of myeloscanning of the subarachnoidal space in 32 patients with diseases of the spinal cord and its pia. The studies were conducted with albumin of human sera and labeled I131. The authors give a scannographical characteristics of the pathology of the subarachnoidal space in syringomyelia which included a change in the configuration, a deformation of the silhouette contour with marginal defects and focal irregular distribution of the isotope. In tumors of the spinal cord this method permits to defict the existence of a complete or partial block of liquor paths and the level of their occlusions. The author recommends a wider use of sabarachnoidal scanning when examining patients with lesions of the spinal cord and its pia pointing to the preciseness, simplicity and security of this method.