“…SYRINGOMYELIA as a late sequel to traumatic paraplegia and tetraplegia has been described by Bastian (1876), Strumpell (1880), Holmes (1915), Freeman (1959), Finckle (1960), Barnett, Bottrell, Jousse and Wynn-Jones (1966), Gardner (1973), Barnett, Foster and Hudgson (1973), Shannon,Symon,Logue,Cull,Kang and Kendall (198 1). Barnett et al (1966) found a clinical picture suggesting syrinx formation in 10 patients out of a total of 59 1 paraplegic patients admitted to Lyndhurst Lodge between 1945 and 1966 but were only able to confirm this at operation in one patient.…”