Internal Medicine: Pathology of the Spinal Cord

Neurology · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Estudio exhaustivo de la anatomía funcional, los grandes síndromes medulares, la fisiopatología del daño medular y las principales enfermedades que afectan la médula espinal, con énfasis en el diagnóstico diferencial y las correlaciones clínicas de alta relevancia.

What it covers

1. Functional Anatomy of the Spinal Cord
2. · Macro-Anatomy: Dimensions and Segmentation
3. · Microscopy: Gray Matter and White Matter
4. · Medullary Vascularization: The Key to Vascular Syndromes
5. · Spinal Meninges and Cerebrospinal Fluid
6. Classic Spinal Cord Syndromes
7. · Brown-Séquard Syndrome (Medullary Hemisection)
8. · Anterior Medullary Syndrome (Anterior Spinal Artery)
9. · Central Cord Syndrome
10. · Posterior spinal cord syndrome
11. · Conus Medullaris Syndrome
12. · Ponytail Syndrome
13. · Complete Spinal Injury Syndrome vs. Incomplete
14. Pathophysiology of Spinal Cord Damage
15. · Primary Injury vs. Secondary Injury
16. · Axonal Regeneration Inhibitors: Molecular Barriers
17. · Medullary Shock vs. Neurogenic Shock
18. Multiple Sclerosis and NMOSD / MOGAD
19. · Pathophysiology of MS
20. · Clinical Forms of MS and McDonald Criteria 2017
21. · The Spinal Cord in MS: Semiological and Radiological Characteristics
22. · NMOSD (Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disease)
23. Transverse Myelitis
24. · TM Diagnostic Criteria (TMCWG 2002)
25. · Etiology of Transverse Myelitis
26. Medullary Vascular Pathology
27. · Medullary Infarction (Medullary Stroke)
28. · Medullary Vascular Malformations
29. · Foix-Alajouanine Syndrome (Subacute Necrotizing Angioma)
30. Spinal Cord Compression: Causes and Management
31. · Topographic Classification of Compression Injuries
32. · Spinal Epidural Metastasis (MSCC): Oncological Emergency
33. · Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy (CSM)
34. Spinal cord trauma
35. · Biomechanical Mechanisms of Injury
36. · ASIA Impairment Scale (AIS): Complete System
37. · Acute Management of Spinal Cord Trauma
38. · Complications of Chronic Spinal Cord Trauma
39. Syringomyelia and Syringobulbia
40. · Pathophysiology: The Theory of Williams and Gardner
41. · Etiology of Syringomyelia
42. · Clinical Presentation and Semiology
43. Degenerative Motor Neuron Diseases
44. · Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS / SLA / ALS)
45. · Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA / SMA) and Kennedy Syndrome
46. Medullary Infectious Pathology
47. · Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AMF / AFM): The "New Polio"
48. · HTLV-1 myelopathy (TSP/HAM)
49. · Spinal Epidural Abscess (SEA): Neurosurgical Emergency
50. · Spinal Tuberculosis (Pott's Disease)
51. Nutritional and Toxic Myelopathy
52. · Subacute Combined Spinal Degeneration (SCD)
53. · Myelopathy due to Nitrogen Protoxide (N₂O)
54. Spinal Cord Tumors
55. · Topographic Classification and General Characteristics
56. · Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis (Leptomeningeal Metastases)
57. Multidisciplinary Diagnosis and Management
58. · Spinal Cord MRI: Protocols and Interpretation
59. · Lumbar Puncture and Interpretation of CSF in Spinal Pathology
60. · Functional Scales in Spinal Pathology
61. · Management of Chronic Complications of Myelopathies