Symptoms of intraspinal tumours typically fall into three syndromes:

• Sensorimotor spinal tract syndrome
  • symptoms of cord compression: gradual progressive sensorimotor loss, back pain, paresthesias, sphincter signs, paralysis
• Radicular spinal cord syndrome
  • compressive symptoms (ex. spastic leg weakness) plus radicular pain symptoms due to nerve root irritation
• Intramedullary syringomyelic syndrome
  • pain, mixed sensorimotor tract symptoms, plus dissociated sensory findings (see diagnosis of syringomyelia), amyotrophy, early incontinence, late motor weakness