It has rarely been reported in spinal cord lesions as low as T10.
Where a spinal cord lesion leads to paraplegia, patients have difficulty emptying their bladders and this can cause infection.
Before arranging this transfer, the physician should be certain that respiration is not affected, particularly in high spinal cord lesions.
Many spinal cord lesions are two to three inches long and would need axons that long.
He also developed the first test for detecting spinal cord lesions.
An implantable medical device enabling patients with a spinal cord lesion to empty their bladders.
Dural ectasia is an example of a spinal cord lesion that may affect continence.
Twenty three patients with complete traumatic supraconal spinal cord lesions were studied.
The only exceptions to this rule are certain spinal cord lesions and the medullary syndromes, of which Wallenberg syndrome is the most famous example.
Some consider rho proteins to be a potential target for delivery into spinal cord lesions after traumatic injury.