Ralph J. Marino

TL;DR: S3 pressure sensation is reliable and has substantial agreement with DAP in persons with SCI at least 1 month postinjury, and is suggested as an alternative test of sensory sacral sparing for supraconus SCI, at least in cases where DAP cannot be tested.

TL;DR: DTI indices measured immediately rostral to the anatomical level of injury consistently showed better correlation (moderate to strong) and accuracy in predicting neurological injury (FA, r = -0.51) than indices measured at the epicenter), and DTI values measured one level rostrals to the injury epicenter showed stronger correlations with multiple clinical features at several time-points.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that the acute central cord syndrome and cruciate paralysis are a likely result of similar pathologic mechanisms and that good functional outcome resulted from an initially disabling trauma is discussed.

TL;DR: Greater number of persons diagnosed with neurologically incomplete SCI regressed to complete status at 1-year when using the Frankel compared to the AIS classification which is based upon sacral sparing, reinforces the finding that the "sacral sparing" definition is a more stable classification in traumatic SCI.