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Post-traumatic syringomyelia is now a well known entity and occurs months or years after a spinal cord injury. The presenting symptoms are usually pain, progressive motor weakness, sensory changes, and increased spasticity. Profuse sweating or hyperhidrosis can be a symptom of the post-traumatic syrinx or can occur in autonomic dysreflexia provoked by peripheral stimuli. We present two patients with cervical spine fractures whose presenting symptom of posttraumatic syringomyelia was hyperhidrosis affected by posture. The pathophysiology involved and the management of these patients is discussed.
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This paper was presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the American Paraplegia Society, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 7–9, 1993
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Glasauer, F., Czyrny, J. Hyperhidrosis as the presenting symptom in post-traumatic syringomyelia. Spinal Cord 32, 423–429 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1994.69
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