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Anterior Cord Syndrome Symptoms. Since posterior columns are spared light touch vibration and. The exact location of lesion development is at the anterior two thirds of the spinal cord due to ischemic injury caused by a vascular lesion at the anterior spinal artery. Symptoms usually occur very quickly and are often experienced within one hour of the initial damage. Areflexia flaccid internal and external anal sphincter urinary retention and intestinal obstruction may also be present in individuals with anterior cord syndrome.
Because the branches of the aorta which supply your anterior spinal artery insufficiencies within your aorta are the most common causes of anterior cord syndrome. However it mimics conus medullaris syndrome causing distal leg paresis and sensory loss in and around the perineum and anus saddle anesthesia as well as bladder bowel and pudendal dysfunction. The exact location of lesion development is at the anterior two thirds of the spinal cord due to ischemic injury caused by a vascular lesion at the anterior spinal artery. Anterior spinal cord syndrome involves complete motor paralysis and loss of temperature and pain perception distal to the lesion. Symptoms usually occur very quickly and are often experienced within one hour of the initial damage. Central cord syndrome anterior cord syndrome posterior cord syndrome and brown séquard syndrome are the most common types of incomplete spinal cord syndromes.
Cauda equina syndrome which involves damage to nerve roots at the caudal end of the cord is not a spinal cord syndrome.
In contrast to a complete spinal cord injury lesions only affect part of the cord and patients present with a dissociated sensory loss. Areflexia flaccid internal and external anal sphincter urinary retention and intestinal obstruction may also be present in individuals with anterior cord syndrome. It may occur with retropulsed disc or bone fragments direct injury to the anterior spinal cord or with lesions of the anterior spinal artery which provides the blood supply to the anterior. Cauda equina syndrome which involves damage to nerve roots at the caudal end of the cord is not a spinal cord syndrome. Symptoms usually occur very quickly and are often experienced within one hour of the initial damage. Anterior spinal cord syndrome involves complete motor paralysis and loss of temperature and pain perception distal to the lesion.