Spinal Cord Injury
A 32-year-old man presents after a stabbing injury to the left side of his neck. Examination reveals left-sided weakness and loss of position sense in the left leg, with loss of pain and temperature sensation on the right side of his body below the nipple line. Vibration sense is diminished on the left. The right leg has normal motor function but he cannot feel a pinprick on that side. Regarding Brown-Séquard syndrome:
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Brown-Séquard syndrome results from hemisection or lateral injury of the spinal cord; causes include...
The classic presentation involves ipsilateral motor weakness (corticospinal tract), ipsilateral loss...
Brown-Séquard syndrome causes bilateral motor weakness; it only occurs from blunt trauma; pain and t...
The neuroanatomical basis is: corticospinal tract (motor) descends ipsilaterally having decussated i...
Prognosis is the best among incomplete spinal cord injuries with 75-90% of patients regaining functi...
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