scholarly journals BLADE Sequences in Sagittal T2-Weighted MR Imaging of the Cervical Spine and Spinal Cord – Lesion Detection and Clinical Value

2013 ◽  
Vol 186 (01) ◽  
pp. 47-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Finkenzeller ◽  
C. Menzel ◽  
F. Fellner ◽  
C. Fellner ◽  
C. Stroszczynski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Cervical Spine ◽  
Mr Imaging ◽  
Spinal Cord Lesion ◽  
Lesion Detection ◽  
Clinical Value ◽  
Cord Lesion

Intraoperative MR imaging in a case of a cervical spinal cord lesion

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 754-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Netuka ◽  
Svatopluk Ostrý ◽  
Tomáš Belšán ◽  
Filip Kramář ◽  
Vladimír Beneš
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Mr Imaging ◽  
Cavernous Malformation ◽  
Cervical Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Lesion ◽  
Cervical Cord ◽  
Cervical Pain ◽  
Neck Flexion ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Cord Lesion

The aim of this article is to describe the feasibility of performing intraoperative MR imaging in patients with spinal cord lesions and the potential value of this technique. The authors report a case involving a 28-year-old man who presented with chronic cervical pain and pain along the ulnar side of the forearms during neck flexion. Findings on clinical examination were normal, but MR imaging revealed a multicystic cervical spinal cord lesion. Surgery was undertaken to open the cysts, evacuate old blood, and search for pathological tissue. Intraoperative MR imaging showed that the caudal cyst was not opened, and surgery was therefore continued. The caudal cyst was fenestrated and a suspected small cavernous malformation was removed. Electrophysiological monitoring was performed both before and after the intraoperative MR imaging. The use of intraoperative MR imaging changed the strategy of the procedure and helped the surgeon to safely enter all the cysts in the cervical cord.

scholarly journals Anti-amphiphysin antibody-positive paraneoplastic neurological syndrome with a longitudinally extensive spinal cord lesion of the dorsal column

2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 572-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuichiro Neshige ◽  
Naoyuki Hara ◽  
Shinichi Takeshima ◽  
Hirotaka Iwaki ◽  
Yutaka Shimoe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndrome ◽  
Dorsal Column ◽  
Spinal Cord Lesion ◽  
Neurological Syndrome ◽  
Cord Lesion

Cross-cultural adaptation of the spinal cord lesion-related coping strategies questionnaire for use in Iran

Injury ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 1539-1544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Saffari ◽  
Amir H. Pakpour ◽  
Mohammad Yaghobidoot ◽  
Faten Al Zaben ◽  
Harold G. Koenige
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Spinal Cord Lesion ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cross Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Cord Lesion

Reduction of Common Synaptic Drive to Ankle Dorsiflexor Motoneurons During Walking in Patients With Spinal Cord Lesion

2005 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 934-942 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. L. Hansen ◽  
B. A. Conway ◽  
D. M. Halliday ◽  
S. Hansen ◽  
H. S. Pyndt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Motor Unit ◽  
Healthy Subjects ◽  
Motor Units ◽  
Central Peak ◽  
Spinal Cord Lesion ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Physiological Markers ◽  
Synaptic Drive ◽  
Cord Lesion

It is possible to obtain information about the synaptic drive to motoneurons during walking by analyzing motor-unit coupling in the time and frequency domains. The purpose of the present study was to compare motor-unit coupling during walking in healthy subjects and patients with incomplete spinal cord lesion to obtain evidence of differences in the motoneuronal drive that result from the lesion. Such information is of importance for development of new strategies for gait restoration. Twenty patients with incomplete spinal cord lesion (SCL) participated in the study. Control experiments were performed in 11 healthy subjects. In all healthy subjects, short-term synchronization was evident in the discharge of tibialis anterior (TA) motor units during the swing phase of treadmill walking. This was identified from the presence of a narrow central peak in cumulant densities constructed from paired EMG recordings and from the presence of significant coherence between these signals in the 10- to 20-Hz band. Such indicators of short-term synchrony were either absent or very small in the patient group. The relationship between the amount of short-term synchrony and the magnitude of the 10- to 20-Hz coherence in the patients is discussed in relation to gait ability. It is suggested that supraspinal drive to the spinal cord is responsible for short-term synchrony and coherence in the 10- to 20-Hz frequency band during walking in healthy subjects. Absence or reduction of these features may serve as physiological markers of impaired supraspinal control of gait in SCL patients. Such markers could have diagnostic and prognostic value in relation to the recovery of locomotion in patients with central motor lesions.

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