I wanted to bring this up, since this forum has not been written in yet. If anyone is looking for information on syringomyelia in association with arachnoid cysts, I have found some interesting articles and journals to help you get started. Some of us here have both arachnoiditis and arachnoid cysts, arachnoid cysts and Chiari malformation, arachnoid cysts and hydrocephalus and I am sure there are some of us here who have both a syrinx and an arachnoid cyst. Sometimes they go hand in hand: