PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Duprez, Thierry P.
AU  - Danvoye, Leslie
AU  - Hernalsteen, Danielle
AU  - Cosnard, Guy
AU  - Sindic, Christian J.
AU  - Godfraind, Catherine
TI  - Fibrocartilaginous Embolization to the Spinal Cord: Serial MR Imaging Monitoring and Pathologic Study
DP  - 2005 Mar 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 496--501
VI  - 26
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/26/3/496.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/26/3/496.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2005 Mar 01; 26
AB  - Summary: We report the serial MR imaging and neuropathologic findings in a patient with fibrocartilaginous embolism to the spinal cord, presumptively originating from vertebral body endplates. Extensive increased T2 signal intensity, minimal contrast enhancing foci, concomitant vertebral body bone marrow infarction, and terminal cord hemorrhagic necrosis were the main MR imaging features. Pathologic examination of the cord demonstrated arteriolar occlusions by chondrocytic thrombi resulting in hemorrhagic necrosis.