Spinal Cord Tract Integrity in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy
Patients with DCM had altered diffusion tensor imaging signal in their lateral corticospinal tract, fasciculus gracilis, and fasciculus cuneatus in comparison with healthy volunteers. These findings indicate that DCM is characterized by injury to these structures, which suggests that other tracts within the cord could potentially act as substrates for compensatory motor recovery.
Authors
- Julien Cohen‐Adad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3662-9532)
- Alex Soroceanu
- Fred Nicholls
- Newton Cho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8715-611X)
- Peter Lewkonia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2377-8520)
- Steve Casha
- David W. Cadotte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2581-5903)
- Nathan Evaniew (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1974-5224)
- Michael Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4907-3510)
- Ganesh Swamy
- Jacques Bouchard
- Stephan DuPlessis
- Kenneth C. Thomas
Institutions
- University of Calgary (CA)
- Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (CA)
- Polytechnique Montréal (CA)
- Université de Montréal (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Neurosurgery
- Published
- 2025-04-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1227/neu.0000000000003428
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.01