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Subacute posttraumatic ascending myelopathy after spinal cord injury. Report of three cases
E Belanger1, C Picard, D Lacerte
1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Florida, USA.
Journal of Neurosurgery
|September 30, 2000
Abstract:
Subacute posttraumatic ascending myelopathy is a rare disorder, unrelated to syrinx formation or mechanical instability, that may gradually emerge within the first 1 to 2 weeks after a spinal cord injury. The authors describe three patients with this syndrome and discuss its possible causes as well as its clinical presentation, imaging characteristics, treatment, and patient prognosis.