Imaging of the Spinal Cord (1): Intro & compressive myelopathy

Imaging of the spinal cord, part 1: Anatomy, terminology & compressive myelopathy.

This is the first video in a short series on imaging of the spinal cord & spinal cord disease, providing you with a general differential diagnostic approach to patients with myelopathy. When confronted with a spinal cord lesions (generally a T2-hyperintensity) three questions are important:

1) Is this a real lesion or an artefact?
2) Is there extrinsic compresson of the spine.
3) Does the patient have acute, subacute or chronic symptoms.

In this first video we'll discuss artefacts and compressve myelopathy. The next two videos will be about acute and chronic myelopathy.

0:00 - Introduction
0:41 - Spinal Cord Anatomy
4:23 - Myelopathy vs. Myelitis
5:20 - When is myelopathy suspected?
7:58 - Acute transverse myeltis vs. acute partial myelitis
9:45 - Longitudinally extensive versus short segment myelitis
10:47 - How to approach a spinal cord lesion on imaging
11:45 - Is it a spinal cord lesion or an artefact?
16:08 - Compressive myelopathy
23:55 - Acute myelopathy (next video)

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[DiegoGonzalezMD]

Was expecting spine lectures! thanks very much!