Atrophy and Primary Somatosensory Cortical Reorganization after Unilateral Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury: A Longitudinal Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

Table 1

Average of spinal cord diameters at all time points. All data are given as means ± standard deviation (mm).

	Health	4 w after injury	8 w after injury	12 w after injury
Caudal TD	6.60±0.71	5.72±0.43	5.60±0.49	5.70±0.48
Caudal AD	5.26±0.59	4.82±0.79	4.90±0.67	4.74±0.77
Rostral TD	5.76±0.30	5.36±0.48	5.06±0.29	5.00±0.37^∗
Rostral AD	4.82±0.43	4.38±0.54	4.22±0.61	4.00±0.37
Cervical TD	5.78±0.24	5.52±0.165	5.48±0.19	5.62±0.11
Cervical AD	4.44±0.18	4.36±0.21	4.50±0.19	4.20±0.21

w: week; TD: transverse diameter; AD: anteroposterior diameter; *𝑃<0.05.