Diseases of the spinal cord

Diseases of the Spinal Cord

It is hardly necessary to review at length the third edition of a book so widely and so favourably known as Dr. Byrom Bramwell's Diseases of the Spinal Cord,?one, too, that has been translated into three languages. As was inevitable in view of the growth of our knowledge with regard to nervous diseases, a considerable extension of the book has been made in this edition. It appears to us to have...

Diseases of the Spinal Cord

Diseases of the Spinal Cord

Feline spinal cord diseases.

The objective of this article is to review the recent literature that reports on the most common diseases affecting the spinal cord of cats, and to draw some general conclusions that will be useful to formulate diagnosis and prognosis for feline spinal patients. The most common types of feline spinal cord diseases documented were inflammatory/infectious diseases, and feline infectious peritonit...

Vascular diseases of the spinal cord.

Vascular disease affecting the spinal can cause substantial neurologic morbidity. Several vascular spinal cord ailments present as neurologic emergencies, and should thus be recognizable to the practicing neurologist. We review the epidemiology, presentation, management strategies, and prognosis of various pathologies, including infarction, dural arteriovenous fistula, arteriovenous malformatio...