Table 1.

Literature review of patients with syringomyelia treated by spinal cord stimulation.  The table presents all cases of spinal cord stimulation in Syringomyelia

Case	Authors	Age/sex	Cause of syrinx	Range of syrinx	Range of pain	Procedure for lead implantation	Time from surgical intervention to SCS application	Time from onset of pain to SCS application	Improvement of pain	Adverse events	Post-SCS follow-up	Recurrence of pain
1	Campos et al. [11] (2013)	46/F	N/A	C1 ~ T1	Left cervical area from occipital region down to shoulder	Percutaneous	No surgical intervention	4 years	Yes	None	32 months	No
2	Beyaz et al. [12] (2017)	50/F	Congenital (not in detail)	Thoracic to sacral region	From trunk to bilateral lower extremities	Percutaneous	4 previous surgical interventions, 2 years since last surgical intervention	N/A	Yes	None	6 months	No
3	Lu et al. [13] (2022)	68/F	N/A	T1 ~ T8	Left chest, back and upper arm	N/A	No surgical intervention	3 years	Yes	None	N/A	No
4	Lu et al. [12] (2022)	41/F	N/A	Medulla oblongata ~ T3	Headache and back pain accompanied by numbness of right upper limb	N/A	Few years	5 years	Yes	None	12 months	No
5	Schatmeyer et al. [14] (2022)	14/F	Chiari malformation type 1 with syringomyelia	Cervicothoracic region	Left arm	Surgical implantation with laminectomy	N/A	Several months	Yes	None	8 months	No
6	Present case	76/F	Chiari malformation type 1 with syringomyelia	C4 ~ T4	Bilateral finger, upper arm, and chest-back	Percutaneous	3 years	16 years	Yes	None	12 months	No