Commentary: Spinal cord ischemia: It's the anatomy, stupid

The development of spinal cord anatomy.

A panel illustrating spinal cord injury in The Dying Lioness in the British Museum dates to 650 BC. This paper outlines the subsequent progression of knowledge of the anatomy of the spinal cord. The animal dissections of Galen are considered because his deductions persisted through the Dark Ages until the late 18th century. Anatomy advanced gradually to yield discoveries of the complex tracts a...

Anatomy of the Brain and Spinal Cord

Spinal Cord Ischemia in Rabbits

Background and Purpose: The lipophilic calcium channel antagonist flunarizine has been demonstrated to be neuroprotective in several models of cerebral ischemia. Ischemic spinal cord injury may have a similar pathophysiology and hence may respond in a similar fashion. This study was designed to investigate the eifects of pretreatment with flunarizine on systemic hemodynamics, spinal cord blood ...

Commentary Spinal Cord Infarction and Fibrocartilagenous Emboli

The preceding report by Yuh et al (1) provides an interesting discussion of spinal cord infarction. However, there was no mention in that report of fibrocartilagenous embolic disease as a possible etiology of cord infarction. Our group has recently had the opportunity to study a case as part of a clinical-pathologic conference (2) . It is an unusual entity and its preoperative diagnosis is rare...

[Urological findings in spinal cord ischemia].

INTRODUCTION Spinal cord ischemia is a circulatory disorder of acute or subacute establishment and neurological clinic of medullar section, usually incomplete. We describe clinical and anatomical characteristics, as well as diagnostic methods and therapeuthic used in these patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Since 1987 to 2007, 65 patients were diagnosed of spinal cord ischemia in our hospital. Cl...