SPINAL CORD SYNDROMES [6]

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Playlist created:

3 Mar 2015 by Daniel Ullmann

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3 Mar 2015

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105037

Systems:

Central Nervous System, Musculoskeletal, Spine, Trauma

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The injury to spinal cord can be incomplete or complete and depends upon the mechanism of injury, but different types of injuries result in different clinical outcome. According to the clinical features spinal cord injuries can be classified into six subsets:

1. central cord syndrome

2. Brown-Séquard syndrome

3. anterior cord syndrome

4. posterior cord syndrome

5. conus medullaris syndrome

6. cauda equina syndrome