Abstract
Objective
We present a rare case of acute spinal cord infarction and usefulness of diffusion weighted MR imaging.
Summary of Literature Review
T1-weighted and T2-weighted images are often normal in a patient with acute spinal cord infarction.
Material and Methods
An 82-year-old presented with acute onset of paraplegia and urinary retention. His symptoms developed 6 days ago without any trauma. He had a history of vertebroplasty due to compression fracture of 12th thoracic vertebral body 6 years ago. There was no evidence of spinal cord compression on routine T1-and T2-weighted MRI.
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Fig. 1.
(A) T2-weighted sagittal image shows a strip like intramedullary high-signal intensity in the spinal cord. (B) and T1-weighted image shows no remarkable signal changes in the cord. (C) An axial T2-weighted image at the level of T12 show an symmetric intramedullary hyperintensy lesion. (D) An axial T1-weighted image at the level of T12 shows no abnormal signal changes.
