Fibrocartilaginous embolism: a comprehensive review of an under-studied cause of spinal cord infarction and proposed diagnostic criteria

MA AbdelRazek, A Mowla, S Farooq… - The Journal of Spinal …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Most spinal cord infarctions are due to aortic pathologies and aortic surgeries.
Fibrocartilaginous Embolism (FCE) has been reported to represent 5.5% of spinal cord …

Uncommon manifestations of intervertebral disk pathologic conditions

FE Diehn, TP Maus, JM Morris, CM Carr… - Radiographics, 2016 - pubs.rsna.org
Beyond the familiar disk herniations with typical clinical features, intervertebral disk
pathologic conditions can have a wide spectrum of imaging and clinical manifestations. The …

Clinically suspected fibrocartilaginous embolism: clinical characteristics, treatments, and outcomes

FJ Mateen, PA Monrad… - European Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To study the frequency, demographics, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of
patients with an antemortem diagnosis of fibrocartilaginous embolism (FCE), a rare cause of …

Spinal cord infarction in Chinese patients: clinical features, risk factors, imaging and prognosis

MY Cheng, RK Lyu, YJ Chang, RS Chen… - Cerebrovascular …, 2008 - karger.com
Background: The clinical presentations, MRI findings and outcomes for spinal cord infarction
(SCI) are well documented in the West but scarce in the East. We investigated the clinical …

Surfers' myelopathy: a case series of 19 novice surfers with nontraumatic myelopathy

CWJ Chang, DJ Donovan, LK Liem, KH O'Phelan… - Neurology, 2012 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: We report the clinical characteristics of the largest series of nontraumatic spinal
cord injury in novice surfers (surfers' myelopathy). Methods: A retrospective review of the …

Intramedullary spinal cord hemorrhage (hematomyelia).

LH AN, EF Wijdicks - Reviews in Neurological Diseases, 2009 - europepmc.org
Intramedullary spinal cord hemorrhage (hematomyelia) is an uncommon cause of
myelopathy and can present in an acute, subacute, stepwise, or chronic fashion. Spinal …

Fibrocartilaginous embolism of the spinal cord diagnosed by characteristic clinical findings and magnetic resonance imaging in 26 dogs

Y Nakamoto, T Ozawa, K Katakabe… - Journal of Veterinary …, 2009 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Fibrocartilaginous embolism (FCE) is a disorder of acute onset that presents with
nonprogressive ataxia. We performed a retrospective examination of FCE of the spinal cord …

Clinical outcome in 19 cats with clinical and magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis of ischaemic myelopathy (2000–2011)

A Theobald, HA Volk, R Dennis… - Journal of feline …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous publications on ischaemic myelopathy in cats are limited to single case reports and
small case series. The overall prognosis appears poor, with 42% of cats being euthanased …

[PDF][PDF] Spinal cord infarct due to fibrocartilaginous embolism in an adolescent boy: a case report and literature review

SA Al-Farsi, H Al-Abri, E Al-Ajmi, A Al-Asmi, S Al-Farsi… - Cureus, 2023 - cureus.com
Fibrocartilaginous embolism (FCE) is one of the rare causes of acute spinal cord infarction.
We report the case of a previously healthy 14-year-old boy with this condition. A few hours …

Acute complete paraplegia of 8-year-old girl caused by spinal cord infarction following minor trauma complicated with longitudinal signal change of spinal cord

K Nagata, Y Tanaka, H Kanai, Y Oshima - European Spine Journal, 2017 - Springer
Introduction Spinal cord infarction followed by minor trauma in pediatric patients is rare and
causes serious paralysis. Fibrocartilaginous embolism (FCE) is a possible diagnosis and …