Snake eye appearance - residue of compressive myelopathy post surgical decompression
Diagnosis certain
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- Integral Diagnostics, Shareholder (ongoing)
- Micro-X Ltd, Shareholder (ongoing)
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Snake eye appearance (SEA) is a result of severe long-standing compression of the cervical spinal cord (usually due to spondylosis or ossification of the posterior longitudonal ligament). It is characterizedcharacterised by cystic necrosis leading to cystic myelomalacia and is thought to have an ischaemic (venous) as well as compressive aetiology. The cystic change is symmetrical and involves the mid-cord grey matter, conferring a poor prognosis by way of muscle weakness recovery following surgical decompression.
-<p>Snake eye appearance (SEA) is a result of severe long-standing compression of the cervical spinal cord (usually due to spondylosis or ossification of the posterior longitudonal ligament). It is characterized by cystic necrosis leading to cystic myelomalacia and is thought to have an ischaemic (venous) as well as compressive aetiology. The cystic change is symmetrical and involves the mid-cord grey matter, conferring a poor prognosis by way of muscle weakness recovery following surgical decompression.</p>- +<p>Snake eye appearance (SEA) is a result of severe long-standing compression of the cervical spinal cord (usually due to spondylosis or ossification of the posterior longitudonal ligament). It is characterised by cystic necrosis leading to cystic myelomalacia and is thought to have an ischaemic (venous) as well as compressive aetiology. The cystic change is symmetrical and involves the mid-cord grey matter, conferring a poor prognosis by way of muscle weakness recovery following surgical decompression.</p>
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