Acute post-traumatic central cord syndrome

This paper correlates MR and clinical findings in patients with acute posttraumatic central cord syndrome (APTCCS) and to define histopathologic changes accounting for MR features in APTCCS. Ten patients with central cord syndrome (CCS) secondary to trauma were examined on an 0.5 or 1.5-T MR system (Picker) 1-10 days following injury (mean, 3.5 days). Three postmortem specimens from patients with APTCCS were examined with MR (1.5 T) and subsequently correlated histopathologically (myelin, axon, hematoxylin-eosin stains). MR images (multiplanar, high detail, spin echo, gradient echo) were evaluated for lesion extent, location, signal, and presence of blood