[Clinico-physiologic characteristics of syringobulbia].

In a complex study of 42 patients with syringomyelobulbia with the aid of EMG and EEG the author most frequently observed symptoms of damage of the descending root and the nuclei of the 5th nerve, the nuclei of the 9, 10 and 12 nerves, as well as nystagmus and the Horner symptom. The dysraphic signs were marked in 40 patients. Conductive sensoral and motor disturbances, changes of arterial pressure and general vascular reactivity, bioelectrical brain activity, a decrease of gastric secretion were revealed. The significance of some diagnostical signs for recognition of syringobulbia is stressed.