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Brown-Séquard syndrome (also known as Brown-Séquard's hemiplegia, Brown-Séquard's paralysis, hemiparaplegic syndrome, hemiplegia et hemiparaplegia spinalis, or spinal hemiparaplegia) is caused by damage to one half of the spinal cord, i.e. hemisection of the spinal cord resulting in paralysis and loss of proprioception on the same (or ipsilateral) side as the injury or lesion, and loss of ...
Brown-Séquard syndrome is only the subtype that affects the spinal cord unilaterally, either anteriorly, posteriorly, or both. [2] Ipsilateral loss of vibration, fine touch, body position perception and fine movement control, as well as contralateral loss of axial muscles and movement coordination are found. [ 5 ]
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard FRS (8 April 1817 – 2 April 1894) was a Mauritian physiologist and neurologist who, in 1850, became the first to describe what is now called Brown-Séquard syndrome. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Other causes of dissociated sensory loss include: Diabetes mellitus [2] Syringomyelia; Brown-Séquard syndrome; Lateral medullary syndrome aka Wallenberg's syndrome; Anterior spinal artery thrombosis; Tangier disease; Subacute combined degeneration; Multiple sclerosis [3] Tabes dorsalis; Friedreich's ataxia (or other spinocerebellar degeneration)
Of the incomplete SCI syndromes, Brown-Séquard and central cord syndromes have the best prognosis for recovery and anterior cord syndrome has the worst. [ 29 ] People with nontraumatic causes of SCI have been found to be less likely to develop complete injuries and some complications such as pressure sores and deep vein thrombosis, and to have ...
Causes Stroke , cerebral palsy , direct physical trauma to the affected limb, central nervous mass lesion, tumor , hematoma , or abscess , migraine , epilepsy , head or spinal trauma, brachial neuritis , neonatal brachial plexus paralysis, Brown Sequard , peripheral neuropathy , plexopathy , traumatic peroneal neuropathy , paralytic ...
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Syringomyelia causes a wide variety of neuropathic symptoms, due to damage to the spinal cord. Patients may experience severe chronic pain, abnormal sensations and loss of sensation, particularly in the hands. Some patients experience paralysis or paresis, temporarily or permanently.