From the Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Spain, Neurosurgery blog.


Characterization of Cyclic CSF Flow in the Foramen Magnum and Upper Cervical Spinal Canal with MR Flow Imaging and Computational Fluid Dynamics

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 31:997–1002.DOI 10.3174/ajnr.A1995

CSF flow has been shown to exhibit complex patterns in MR images in both healthy subjects and in patients with Chiari I. Abnormal CSF flow oscillations, according to prevailing opinion, cause syringomyelia and other clinical manifestations that affect some patients with the Chiari I malformation. 

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