White cord syndrome: A devastating complication of spinal decompression surgery.

Conclusion: Very few cases of reperfusion injury of the cervical spinal cord or "white cord syndrome" are described in the literature. Here we present a patient who, following cervical laminectomy and fusion for excision of metastatic tumor, developed quadriplegia. Notably, postoperative MR showed only findings of upper cervical cord and lower brain stem edema consistent with a "white cord syndrome" without other compressive pathology. PMID: 30090668 [PubMed]
Source: Surgical Neurology International - Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Surg Neurol Int Source Type: research