Role of CT and MRI examination of spinal cord injury

After spinal cord injury, imaging tests are needed to help with treatment
to understand the extent of the injury.

Symptoms of spinal cord injury

Spinal cord concussions: transient states
of sexual inhibition after spinal cord injury.

Spinal cord shock: temporary complete inhibition of function occurs when the spinal cord suffers from severe trauma and pathological damage, and the clinical manifestations are characterized by retarded paralysis, and various spinal cord reflexes including loss of pathological reflexes and loss of
bistool function.

Next, let's introduce the role of CT and MRI on spinal cord injury
.

Role of CT and MRI examination of spinal cord injury

CT: routine x-ray examination of vertebral fracture injuries often omit minor fractures, and can not clearly show changes in the spinal canal and spinal canal, using continuous thin-slice CT scanning, can show the x-ray shows the unclear part, understand the vertebral fracture displacement, especially the posterior edge of the vertebral body fracture block and the degree of displacement to the spinal canal, articular process fracture displacement, vertebral fracture subsidence protrusion into the spinal canal
.

MRI: MRI in the clinical diagnosis of spinal cord injury is becoming more and more widely used, its role is also gradually recognized, compared with other imaging technology, MRI can directly image the neural tissue, its uniqueness, so that clinicians on the spinal cord itself pathological changes in the judgment is more accurate, this feature for the degree of spinal cord injury clinical judgment, as well as treatment options bring great convenience
.

CT and MRI do not conflict with spinal cord injury, and may require both
.