BACKGROUND Prior studies have compared the effect of spinal cord injury elicited using distinct approaches on motor and visceral function. However, the impact of such discrete modes of injury specifically on bladder muscle contractility has not been explored in detail. The goal of this study is to compare the impact of complete spinal cord transection versus clip compression at thoracic vertebr...

RATIONALE The spinal cord compression caused by intraspinal epidural fibrous cord. PATIENT CONCERNS All patients in this study had spinal cord compression syndrome caused by an intraspinal epidural fibrous cord, manifested as abnormally increased epidural adipose tissue by imaging. DIAGNOSE These abnormal fibrous connective tissue strips were not identical to the known pathological tissue s...

AIm: Cervical spine is the most kinetic segment of the whole vertebrae. The radiologic imaging methods concern with the morphologic changes but give no functional data. At flexion, spinal cord strains, anterior osteophytic compression increases. At extension, spinal canal gets narrower, cord shortens and gets thicker, compression of posterior ligament gets abberant and cord compression increase...

BACKGROUND Patients with cervical disc disease may present with radiculopathy (root compression), myelopathy (cord compression), or myeloradiculopathy. These complaints must be correlated with x-ray, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, and computed tomographic (CT) scans. Although most patients can be managed nonsurgically, those with significant neurological deficits and larger disc herniations m...

Hereby we report a patient with thalassemia major having extradural cord compression at T3-T9 levels due to a mass of extramedullary hematopoiesis (EMH) tissue, whose treatment was successful with hypertransfusion therapy alone. The patient was a 23-year-old man who had not received regular blood transfusion since two years before admission. He suffered from paraparesis with a history of progre...

Introduction: Hirayama disease is a form of cervical myelopathy common in male adolescents that affects distal upper extremities & anterior horn cells spinal cord. It symmetrical lower motor weakness self-contained hands forearms.Materials and Methods: Observational type case study using MRI. 16 years presented with inability to move his right index finger decreased sensations for 3 monthsResul...

Low-lying cord is an uncommon entity, and cord compression due lumbar disc disease is rarely encountered. We discuss our experience with a case of lumbar cord compression secondary to a large disc protrusion, which caused myelopathy in a low-lying/tethered cord. A 77-year-old woman with known spina bifida occulta presented with 6-week history of severe low back pain and progressive paraparesis....

OBJECTIVE To evaluate progression of clinical signs and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in dogs with cervical spondylomyelopathy (wobbler syndrome) treated medically or surgically. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. ANIMALS 12 Doberman Pinschers. PROCEDURES Neurologic examinations and MRI were performed before medical (n = 9) or surgical treatment (ventral slot, 3) and a minimum o...

This report describes a case of myelofibrosis presenting as spinal cord compression on account of extramedullary haemopoietic tissue encroaching upon the spinal cord from a large pelvic mass.