We review the current knowledge concerning clinical applications of the advanced technique of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of the spinal cord. Due to technical difficulties, DTI has rarely been used in spinal cord diseases. However, in our opinion it is potentially a very useful method in diagnosis of the different pathological processes of the spinal cord an...

Intramedullary spinal cord hemorrhage (hematomyelia) is an uncommon cause of myelopathy and can present in an acute, subacute, stepwise, or chronic fashion. Spinal vascular malformations such as intramedullary cavernomas and intradural arteriovenous malformations are the most common cause of atraumatic intramedullary spinal cord hemorrhage based on the existing literature. Additional considerat...

Spinal cord glioblastoma (SG) accounts for 1.5% of all spinal tumors and has a poor prognosis with survival ranging from 2 to 26 months from presentation. A 57-year-old male presented with one week of paraparesis and contrasted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of an epidural enhancing thoracic mass suspicious for an epidural abscess. Intraoperative and pathologic findings revealed SG. ...

Introduction: Germ cell tumors account for 3.5 % of pediatric and yolk sac are the most common pure malignant germ in children. Testis ovary sites involvement children older than 2 years. Case Presentation: A 20-month-old boy with a complaint limping was described this case report. Abdominal ultrasonography showed 52 × 50 mm solid abdominal mass. pelvic computed tomography scans left paraspinal...

cortical spreading depression (csd) has been suggested to underlie some neurological disorders such as migraine. despite the intensity with which many investigators have studied sd in the brain, only a few studies have aimed to identify sd in the spinal cord. here we described the main characteristic features of sd in the spinal cord induced by different methods including various spinal cord in...

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a magnetic resonance technique capable of measuring the magnitude and direction of water molecule diffusion in various tissues. The use of DTI is being expanded to evaluate a variety of spinal cord disorders both for prognostication and to guide therapy. The purpose of this article is to review the literature on spinal cord DTI in both animal models and humans ...

Intramedullary spinal cord (SC) tumors are relatively rare tumors, accounting for only 2% to 4% ofcentral nervous

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Only a few reports on intramedullary tumors of the spinal cord using PET have been published. We report findings of PET by using [(18)F] fluorodeoxyglucose and [(11)C] methionine and discuss the usefulness of the findings in patients with intramedullary tumors of the spinal cord. MATERIALS AND METHODS PET/CT was performed in 9 patients with intramedullary tumors of the ...