Traumatic injury to spinal cord affects thousands of persons and costs billions of dollars annually in treatment expenses. Although less than a decade ago spinal cord injury was thought of as an untreatable condition, many promising new treatments are now in the experimental stage. Rodent models are essential for validating new therapeutic trials. This paper presents results of in vivo magnetic...

BACKGROUND The indications and timing of treatment, as well as the best treatment method for traumatic central cord syndrome (CCS), remain controversial. The aims of this study are to determine the prognostic factors of traumatic CCS and to determine appropriate surgical indications. METHODS We reviewed the clinical and radiological data of 47 patients with this syndrome. The data collected i...

UNLABELLED Intradural arachnoid cysts are rare lesions that frequently arise posterior to the spinal cord in the thoracic spine region. Those located at the cervical spine level, anterior to the spinal cord are even rarer. The usual treatment of symptomatic intradural spinal cysts involves surgical removal through a posterior approach using a laminectomy or laminotomy. However, ventrally locate...

Acute non-traumatic spinal subdural hematoma (SSDH) is a rare clinical condition in the emergency medicine practice and difficult to diagnose during primary physical examination. It mostly occurs at thoracal vertebra levels due trauma, use of anticoagulants, medical procedures such as acupuncture, arteriovenous malformations, hematological disorders or space-occupying lesions. Here, we discusse...

INTRODUCTION Spinal cord injury in children frequently occurs without fracture or dislocation. SCIWORA is a syndrome occurring when the spinal cord sustains neural damage during a traumatic event without positive radiographic findings. The incidence of SCIWORA was found to be 8% to 32% in various studies with very few cases documented in children below the age of 1 year. We report such a case o...

BACKGROUND This study is aimed to determine the clinical and radiological corellations of adult patients with Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormalities (SCIWORA). METHODS The study population consisted of all adult patients with suspected cervical spine injury. SCIWORA was defined as the presence of either no injury or a neural injury on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in the abs...

A Case report about an intramedullary epidermoid cyst and its association with an arrested ascent of the spinal cord, concomitant the neurological deficits, the surgical treatment and the clinical progress after one year. Epidermoid cysts are rare in the spinal cord, less than 1% of all spinal tumors. A 40-year-old woman described hypesthesia in the right left foot and back pain since one year....

BACKGROUND Spinal epidermoid cysts are benign tumors, which are rarely seen as an intradural extramedullary spinal cord tumor in the conus medullaris region. Acquired spinal epidermoid cysts are mostly caused by iatrogenic procedures, such as lumbar puncture, and the majority of acquired spinal epidermoid cysts have been reported below the L1 level, because lumbar puncture is usually performed ...