... was quantified through Freesurfer, while cervical spinal cord (SC) volume was assessed manually guided by Spinal Cord Toolbox software analysis. EDSS, neuroradiological, and OCT assessment were carried out within 3 months. OCT parameters were calculated as the average of both nonoptic neuritis (ON) eyes...

... scores at the short-term follow-up visits. Conclusion: Anemia, low levels of serum vitamin B 12 , and MRI abnormalities in the spinal cord are not expected to be associated with worse clinical manifestations. The age of onset and course of disease are important in evaluating the short-term prognosis...

...Fredrik Romi; Halvor Naess Spinal cord stroke is rare accounting for 0.3-1% of all strokes and is classified into upper (cervical) and lower (thoracolumbar) strokes. Patients present with severe deficits but later often show good functional improvement. On admission, younger age, male gender...

...Barbara Tettenborn; Stefan Hägele-Link Background: The spinal cord is the main pathway for information, connecting the brain and the peripheral nervous system. Any disorder that results in spinal cord dysfunction will have a dramatic impact on the patient's quality of life. This review focusses...

...: Standard anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy is the cornerstone of stepwise therapy for tuberculosis of the upper cervical spine. Local chemotherapy is effective and minimally invasive for patients with severe local symptoms without spinal cord compression. Just as in patients with atlantoaxial instability...

...Yaou Liu; Yue Han; Yunyun Duan; Jing Huang; Zhuoqiong Ren; Helmut Butzkueven; Kuncheng Li Aims: To assess the demographic, clinical and spinal cord MRI characteristics of clinically definite neuromyelitis optica (NMO) patients for association with anti-aquaporin-4 (AQP4) antibody positivity...

...Andrea M. Esteves; Camila F.R. Squarcini; Carmen L.P. Lancellotti; Sergio Tufik; Marco T. de Mello Background/Aims: Previous studies have demonstrated that spinal cord injury (SCI) results in changes in sleep patterns through increased arousals and limb movements during sleep. Dramatic changes...

... responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Epidural hematoma Spinal cord Cervical pain Neurological Vignette Received: March 18, 2009 Accepted: April 4, 2009 Published online: June 5...

... malformation at the thoracolumbar transition of the spinal cord. The patient in generation III had a pons hemorrhage at the age of 11 due to a large brainstem cavernoma. The hemorrhage caused facial palsy and hemiparesis, persisting as Millard-Gubler syndrome. Sequencing of KRIT1 identified a novel frameshift...

...Sten-Magnus Aquilonius; Håkan Askmark; Ted Ebendal; Per-Göran Gillberg Autoradiographic studies of high-affinity nerve growth factor binding sites in the cervical human spinal cord revealed a high density of binding sites in the dorsal horn and in the tract of Lissauer, which is in agreement...

...Hiroshi Morita; Ryoichi Hayashi; Kenji Tako; Naoyuki Tsukada; Nobuo Yanagisawa The unusual case of a 64-year-old female with sarcoidosis involving the spinal cord is reported. Diffuse swelling of the cord with nodular lesions was observed on MRI. The lesions showed a low intensity area on the T 1...

...A. Al-Husaini; Goran A. Jamal Myelopathy is a rare complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Only 34 cases have been fully described in the literature. 5 other cases have been listed among large surveys of SLE patients. It is particularly unusual to find evidence of spinal cord...

...S.C. Rastogi; J. Clausen; W.W. Tourtellotte We have estimated the levels of partially purified multiple sclerosis (MS) specific glycoproteins (MSG2) in gray matter, white matter, spinal cord and brain stem of MS autopsy brains by an enzyme immunoassay in which antisera to a pooled MSG2 was employed...

.... Myelopathy Irradiation treatment Neoplasms Spinal cord Europ. Neurol. 10: 83-88 (1973) Radiation Myelopathy I. Y aar, Y. H erishanu and S. L avy Department of Neurology, Hadassah University Hospital and Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, and Neurological Unit, Shaare Zedek General Hospital...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Angiography Arteria spinalis anterior Spinal cord Cervical blood flow Europ. Neurol. 5: 335-342 (1971...

.... The relative incidence of different groups of neurological disorders have been indicated and discussed. Geomedicine Tropical neurology Cerebrovascular disorders Neuropathies Epilepsy Spinal cord Infectious diseases Myopathies Demyelinating diseases Extrapyramidal disorders Intracranial tumors...

...Xiao Feng Yin; Zhong Guo Fu; Dian Yin Zhang; Bao Guo Jiang ATP-sensitive potassium channels (K ATP ) are involved in the regulation of potassium homeostasis in the nervous system, and they may play an important role in acute peripheral nerve and spinal cord injury. Here, the expression of the K ATP...

... to in the content or advertisements. Multiple sclerosis Charcot’s disease Spinal cord Historical Note Eur Neurol 2005;54:49 53 DOI: 10.1159/000087387 Received: May 3, 2005 Accepted: May 3, 2005 Published online: August 10, 2005 Historical Descriptions of Multiple Sclerosis The Stories of Augustus D Este...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Somatosensory modalities Subcortical pathways Thalamic dissociation Pains Ascending pathways Spinal cord Brainstem...

...Anne-Dorte Sperfeld; Volker Bretschneider; Leonie Flaith; Alexander Unrath; C. Oliver Hanemann; Albert C. Ludolph; Jan Kassubek This MRI study was performed to evaluate in vivo alterations of the spinal cord in defined subgroups of motor neuron diseases. Standard MRI examinations of the cervical...