MR imaging in the diagnosis of intramedullary spinal cord diseases that involve specific neural pathways or vascular territories.

Abstract

Prior to the advent of MR imaging, the internal architecture of the spinal cord could not be directly imaged.

Symptomatic epidural lipomatosis of the spinal cord in a child: MR demonstration of spinal cord injury

“…Several different of topologic patterns of cord involvement have been described on MR in patients with different diseases. According to these studies, central T2 prolongation, as seen in our patient, is the result of arterial, rather than venous, spinal cord ischemia [18,19].…”

Heterogeneity and continuum of multiple sclerosis in Japanese according to magnetic resonance imaging findings

“…The LESCLs of OSMS patients preferentially affected the upper to middle thoracic cord with either central gray matter or holocord involvement, where the spinal cord is most vulnerable to ischemia [22]. Such distributions of LESCLs on the sagittal and axial planes in patients with OSMS are different from the features of spinal lesions seen in Caucasian MS patients [21], which preferentially affect the peripheral white matter of the cervical cord.…”

Imaging of the Spinal Cord: Classic Syndromes and Non-neoplastic Lesions

“…15 In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, both upper (corticospinal tract) and lower (anterior horn cells) motor neurons are affected. 16 …”