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Spinal cord infarction: MRI and MEP findings in three cases
P Berlit1, G Klötzsch, J Röther
1Department of Neurology, Fakultät für Klinische Medizin Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, West Germany.
Journal of Spinal Disorders
|June 1, 1992
Abstract:
We report findings of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in three patients with spinal cord ischemia. While myelography was normal in all three patients, MRI found pathological signal increase on the T2-weighted images in each case. Signal changes in T1-weighted images of hemorrhagic infarction were seen in one patient, and gadolinium-DTPA enhancement because of a disturbed blood-tissue barrier was noted in another. Motor evoked potentials after transcortical magnetic stimulation showed normal latencies with very low amplitudes as a sign of axonal loss in ischemia of the spinal cord.