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A patient with complete post-traumatic paraplegia below T6 developed urinary problems and late secondary syringolmyelia. The concordance between the appearance of micturition difficulties and the first sensory symptoms leads us to discuss the rĂ´le of important and repeated efforts to obtain reflex micturition, during the development of post-traumatic syringomyelia.
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Umbach, I., Heilporn, A. Evolution of post-traumatic cervical syringomyelia: case report. Spinal Cord 26, 56–61 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1988.13
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