Open AccessTraumatic cervical spinal cord transection
Author(s) -
Mai Mostafa
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
bjr case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2055-7159
DOI - 10.1259/bjrcr.20180043
Subject(s) - spinal cord , medicine , cord , spinal cord injury , traumatic injury , surgery , psychiatry
MRI plays a crucial role in the assessment of spinal cord injury in cervical trauma. Transection of the cord is a rare post-traumatic cord injury, which appears on T 2 W images as a high signal between the two disrupted ends of the cord.