myelopathy

Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia (SED)

Engelmann's Disease

 

Progressive diaphyseal dysplasia

- marked thickening of cortices of long bones

 

Present

 

Young child with gait disturbance and limb pain

 

Clinical

 

Bilateral symmetrical diaphyseal sclerosis of long bones

- Affects endosteal & periosteal new bone

- Metaphysis & epiphysis are normal

 

Skull base sclerotic

- can get blindness and deafness

Cervical Myelopathy

DefinitionCervical Myelopathy MRI

 

Spinal cord dysfunction

- extrinsic compression of the cord or its vascular supply

- caused by degenerative disease of spine

 

Epidemiology

 

Most common spinal cord dysfunction in patients > 55 years old

 

C5/6 commonest level

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