Spinal cord infarction (SCI): management
Evidence-based neurology checklist on spinal cord infarction (sci): management: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): abnormal features Focal cord enlargement and hyperintensity on T2 sequences Snake’s or owl’s eyes pattern Pencil-like hyperintensity Spinal-cord enhancement Restricted diffusion…
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): abnormal features
- Focal cord enlargement and hyperintensity on T2 sequences
- Snake’s or owl’s eyes pattern
- Pencil-like hyperintensity
- Spinal-cord enhancement
- Restricted diffusion
- Hyperintense vertebral body signal changes on T2 sequences
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): evolution
MRI differential: neuromyelitis optica (NMO)
MRI differential: acute transverse myelitis (ATM)
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
Treatment
Predictors of poor outcome
Synonym
References
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- Robertson CE, Brown RD, Wijdicks EFM, Rabinstein AA. Recovery after spinal cord infarcts: long term outcome in 115 patients. Neurology 2012; 78:114-121.
- Zalewski NL, Rabinstein AA, Krecke KN, et al. Characteristics of spontaneous spinal cord infarction and proposed diagnostic criteria. JAMA Neurol 2019; 76:56-63.
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