Magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of spinal cord lesions: what can we find? - Part 1. Neoplastic, vascular, metabolic, and traumatic injuries

Abstract

Diseases involving the spinal cord include a heterogeneous group of abnormalities, including those of inflammatory, infectious, neoplastic, vascular, metabolic, and traumatic origin. Making the clinical differentiation between different entities is often difficult, magnetic resonance imaging being the diagnostic method of choice. Although the neuroimaging findings are not pathognomonic, many are quite suggestive, and the radiologist can assist in the diagnosis and, consequently, in the therapeutic guidance. In this first part of our article, the objective is to review the magnetic resonance imaging findings of the main neoplastic, vascular, metabolic, and traumatic spinal cord injuries.

Compreensão Dos Mecanismos Fisiopatológicos Envolvidos No Traumatismo Raquimedular (Trm) E Sua Terapêutica Envolvendo a Estimulação Espinhal

“…A medula espinhal é uma estrutura do sistema nervoso central, que está alojada dentro do canal vertebral, se estendendo da região do bulbo, saindo pelo forame magno até a região lombar, na parte do cone medular ao nível de L1/L2, sendo protegida pelas meninges e circundada pelo líquido cefalorraquidiano (LCR), ela é composta por neurônios e fibras nervosas que transmitem informações sensoriais e motoras entre o cérebro e o resto do corpo (Pereira et al, 2021).…”