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A woman of 22 years developed heavy pain in the neck and arms with weakness and paresthesia. She died two days after a myelography which was normal. At autopsy an enterogenous extra- and intra-medullary cyst of the cervical cord (C 3, C 4) was found. In addition the cervical cord apart from the cyst and the uppermost thoracic cord presented central clefts which were filled with mucilage. These findings are named mucomyelia and have not been reported previously.
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Pilz, P., Fischbach, R. & Brenneis, M. Enterogene Cyste des Halsmarkes mit Mucomyelie. Acta Neuropathol 40, 277–278 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00691967
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00691967