Posttraumatic Spinal Cord Injury without Radiographic Abnormality

Figure 3

A 12-month-old female infant presented with nausea, vomiting, and drowsiness to emergency room after falling from a height of less than 30 cm. She had no neurological deficit at presentation, and cervical spine plain radiographs (a) and CT with 3D reconstruction (b) showed no abnormal findings. (c) Seven days after the injury the patient developed right sided hemiparesis and cervical MRI revealed increased intensity (arrows) in the T2-weighted images at the level of C6. (d) Repeat cervical MRI one month later shows that increased signal intensity has disappeared. The patient continued to improve neurologically until 24 months after the injury and returned to near-normal. (Source: with permission from [17].)