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The experience with percutaneous puncture of intraspinal cystic lesions is reported in four cases: an extradural cyst demonstrated with air, a spinal cord tumor with lipiodol and two cases of syringomyelia with metrizamide. Percutaneous puncture of cystic lesions makes possible an accurate delineation of the lesion and a histological approach through biochemical and cytological analysis of the aspirated cystic fluid, while aspiration of the fluid of cystic tumors decompresses the spinal cord and thus plays a therapeutic role.
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Dietemann, J.L., Babin, E., Wackenheim, A. et al. Percutaneous puncture of spinal cysts in the diagnosis and therapy of syringomyelia and cystic tumors. Neuroradiology 24, 59–63 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00344586
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00344586