Patient's question:
Recently, I don't know why I can't sleep, which greatly affects my work efficiency. My friend recommended that I go to the neurology department for a check-up. Could you please tell me what are the symptoms of spinal canal cyst?Doctor's answer:
Spinal cord cavitation, the etiology of this disease is not yet very clear. Spinal cord cavitation is a chronic progressive lesion, mainly caused by a series of manifestations due to the expansion of the central canal of the spinal cord. We generally divide this type of disease into two major categories. The first category is caused by congenital diseases, such as spinal cord atrophy leading to spinal cord cavitation. The second category is secondary spinal cord cavitation, where "secondary" means it is caused by other reasons, such as a tumor growing inside the spinal cord, which blocks the central canal of the spinal cord, causing water to accumulate inside and form spinal cord expansion, which we call spinal cord cavitation. Inflammation or trauma can also cause spinal cord cavitation.