Compression of the Spinal Cord Due to Ventral Extradural Cervical Chondromas

Brown-Sequard syndrome associated with Horner syndrome following cervical disc herniation

“…In 1928, Stookey first reported a herniated cervical disc as a etiology of BSS. 5 We found 58 cases reported in the literature, 4 with our cases increasing the number to 59. The frequency of this syndrome has been reported to be 2.6% and 0.21% by Jomin et al and Kim et al, respectively.…”

Brown-Sequard syndrome associated with Horner syndrome following cervical disc herniation

“…In 1928, Stookey first reported a herniated cervical disc as a etiology of BSS. 5 We found 58 cases reported in the literature, 4 with our cases increasing the number to 59. The frequency of this syndrome has been reported to be 2.6% and 0.21% by Jomin et al and Kim et al, respectively.…”

Lesson of the Week: False localising signs in the spinal cord: Fig 1

“…A sensory discrepancy has been well described in cervical disc herniation,4 5 and in one series of five patients with painless cervical myelopathy the sensory level was consistently below T5 6. This has been explained on the basis of pain and temperature fibres crossing obliquely to reach the contralateral spinothalamic tracts two or three segments higher 7. Although this is true, it accounts only for sensory levels a few segments below the lesion, and does not explain the large discrepancies of up to nine segments below the lesion that have been described in cervical myelopathy,6 of seven segments in other forms of cord compression,3 or of 11 segments in our case.…”

Herniation and Protrusion of Intervertebral Discs and Spondylotic Myeloradiculopathy

“…Isolated reports of severe ·compression of the cauda equina duc to sudden traumatic rupture of an intervertebral disc appeared in the liter;:tture at an early date ( Kocher, 1896;Middleton and Teacher, 1911;Goldthwait, 1911) but it was not yet suspected, except perhaps by Goldthwait, that the intervertebral disc might be a common cause of nerve root compression. As reported by Elsberg ( 1916Elsberg ( , 1925, Steinke ( 1918), Clymer, Mixter and Mella (1921), Adson and Ott (1922), Stookey ( 1928), Bucy ( 1930), and others, herniations of disc tissue were fQund at operation to have compressed neural structures within the spinal canal but these herniations were considered to be chondromata. According to Elsberg ( 1931), Stookey ( 1928) deserves the credit for first calling attention to the fact that the "chondromata" are derived from the intervertebral cartilages.…”

“…As reported by Elsberg ( 1916Elsberg ( , 1925, Steinke ( 1918), Clymer, Mixter and Mella (1921), Adson and Ott (1922), Stookey ( 1928), Bucy ( 1930), and others, herniations of disc tissue were fQund at operation to have compressed neural structures within the spinal canal but these herniations were considered to be chondromata. According to Elsberg ( 1931), Stookey ( 1928) deserves the credit for first calling attention to the fact that the "chondromata" are derived from the intervertebral cartilages.…”

Brown-Sequard syndrome associated with Horner syndrome following cervical disc herniation

“…In 1928, Stookey first reported a herniated cervical disc as a etiology of BSS. 5 We found 58 cases reported in the literature, 4 with our cases increasing the number to 59. The frequency of this syndrome has been reported to be 2.6% and 0.21% by Jomin et al and Kim et al, respectively.…”

Lesson of the Week: False localising signs in the spinal cord: Fig 1

“…A sensory discrepancy has been well described in cervical disc herniation,4 5 and in one series of five patients with painless cervical myelopathy the sensory level was consistently below T5 6. This has been explained on the basis of pain and temperature fibres crossing obliquely to reach the contralateral spinothalamic tracts two or three segments higher 7. Although this is true, it accounts only for sensory levels a few segments below the lesion, and does not explain the large discrepancies of up to nine segments below the lesion that have been described in cervical myelopathy,6 of seven segments in other forms of cord compression,3 or of 11 segments in our case.…”

Herniation and Protrusion of Intervertebral Discs and Spondylotic Myeloradiculopathy

“…Isolated reports of severe ·compression of the cauda equina duc to sudden traumatic rupture of an intervertebral disc appeared in the liter;:tture at an early date ( Kocher, 1896;Middleton and Teacher, 1911;Goldthwait, 1911) but it was not yet suspected, except perhaps by Goldthwait, that the intervertebral disc might be a common cause of nerve root compression. As reported by Elsberg ( 1916Elsberg ( , 1925, Steinke ( 1918), Clymer, Mixter and Mella (1921), Adson and Ott (1922), Stookey ( 1928), Bucy ( 1930), and others, herniations of disc tissue were fQund at operation to have compressed neural structures within the spinal canal but these herniations were considered to be chondromata. According to Elsberg ( 1931), Stookey ( 1928) deserves the credit for first calling attention to the fact that the "chondromata" are derived from the intervertebral cartilages.…”

“…As reported by Elsberg ( 1916Elsberg ( , 1925, Steinke ( 1918), Clymer, Mixter and Mella (1921), Adson and Ott (1922), Stookey ( 1928), Bucy ( 1930), and others, herniations of disc tissue were fQund at operation to have compressed neural structures within the spinal canal but these herniations were considered to be chondromata. According to Elsberg ( 1931), Stookey ( 1928) deserves the credit for first calling attention to the fact that the "chondromata" are derived from the intervertebral cartilages.…”

Brown-Sequard syndrome associated with Horner syndrome following cervical disc herniation

“…In 1928, Stookey first reported a herniated cervical disc as a etiology of BSS. 5 We found 58 cases reported in the literature, 4 with our cases increasing the number to 59. The frequency of this syndrome has been reported to be 2.6% and 0.21% by Jomin et al and Kim et al, respectively.…”

Lesson of the Week: False localising signs in the spinal cord: Fig 1

“…A sensory discrepancy has been well described in cervical disc herniation,4 5 and in one series of five patients with painless cervical myelopathy the sensory level was consistently below T5 6. This has been explained on the basis of pain and temperature fibres crossing obliquely to reach the contralateral spinothalamic tracts two or three segments higher 7. Although this is true, it accounts only for sensory levels a few segments below the lesion, and does not explain the large discrepancies of up to nine segments below the lesion that have been described in cervical myelopathy,6 of seven segments in other forms of cord compression,3 or of 11 segments in our case.…”

Herniation and Protrusion of Intervertebral Discs and Spondylotic Myeloradiculopathy

“…Isolated reports of severe ·compression of the cauda equina duc to sudden traumatic rupture of an intervertebral disc appeared in the liter;:tture at an early date ( Kocher, 1896;Middleton and Teacher, 1911;Goldthwait, 1911) but it was not yet suspected, except perhaps by Goldthwait, that the intervertebral disc might be a common cause of nerve root compression. As reported by Elsberg ( 1916Elsberg ( , 1925, Steinke ( 1918), Clymer, Mixter and Mella (1921), Adson and Ott (1922), Stookey ( 1928), Bucy ( 1930), and others, herniations of disc tissue were fQund at operation to have compressed neural structures within the spinal canal but these herniations were considered to be chondromata. According to Elsberg ( 1931), Stookey ( 1928) deserves the credit for first calling attention to the fact that the "chondromata" are derived from the intervertebral cartilages.…”

“…As reported by Elsberg ( 1916Elsberg ( , 1925, Steinke ( 1918), Clymer, Mixter and Mella (1921), Adson and Ott (1922), Stookey ( 1928), Bucy ( 1930), and others, herniations of disc tissue were fQund at operation to have compressed neural structures within the spinal canal but these herniations were considered to be chondromata. According to Elsberg ( 1931), Stookey ( 1928) deserves the credit for first calling attention to the fact that the "chondromata" are derived from the intervertebral cartilages.…”