3:51 118. Correlation of Qualitative and Quantitative MRI Findings With Neurological Outcome after C-Spine Trauma: A Multi-Center Prospective Study of 100 Patients With Acute Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

Abstract

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: It is well established that MRI is the optimal imaging modality in assessing acute cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). Most studies, however, emphasize the qualitative changes in this setting with an absence of studies focusing on the quantitative MR assessment of patients with acute SCI. More recently, Fehlings et al. developed a radiological method for assessing maximum spinal canal compromise (MCC) and maximum spinal cord compression (MSCC) in acute traumatic cervical SCI, and confirmed their reliability in a subsequent study.