Non-traumatic acute myelopathies: Clinical and imaging features in a real world emergency setting.
Alessandro StasollaLuca ProsperiniShalom HaggiagFrancesca R PezzellaAlberto PingiValeria CozzolinoEnrico PampanaEnrico CotroneoCarla TortorellaAgazio MennitiClaudio GasperiniPublished in: The neuroradiology journal (2022)
We propose a simple clinical indicator (i.e. pyramidal signs and/or pain) to distinguish AMs from their mimics in an emergency setting. Urgent spinal cord MRI remains essential to discriminate compressive and non-compressive aetiologies.
Keyphrases
- spinal cord
- public health
- spinal cord injury
- emergency department
- healthcare
- neuropathic pain
- chronic pain
- magnetic resonance imaging
- high resolution
- liver failure
- pain management
- contrast enhanced
- computed tomography
- drug induced
- intensive care unit
- hepatitis b virus
- photodynamic therapy
- fluorescence imaging
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation