Ch.R. NURMIEVA¹, E.I. BOGDANOV²

¹Republican Clinical Hospital of the MH of RT, 138 Orenburgskiy Trakt, Kazan, Russian Federation, 420064

²Kazan State Medical University, 49 Butlerov St., Kazan, Russian Federation, 420012

Nurmieva Ch.R. — neurologist of Diabetic Center of Outpatient Clinic, tel. (843) 231-21-81, e-mail: chulpan.nurmieva@mail.ru

Bogdanov E.I. — D. Med. Sc., Professor, Head of the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation, tel. (843) 237-34-72, e-mail: enver_bogdanov@mail.ru

This issue presents neurological and magnetic resonance imaging examination of 87 patients with stenosis of cervical spinal canal. Neurological syndromes of cervical myelopathy are pyramidal, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, poliomyelitic, syringomyelic, radiculomyelopathy and Brown — Sequard syndrome. The most diagnostically informative morphometric indicators of cervical spinal stenosis such as the reduction of spinal canal size (an anterior — posterior diameter of less than 12 mm), of the space for the spinal cord (4,18 or less) and of the canal-to-body ratio (Torg — Pavlov ratio) (0,8 or less) are identified.

Key words: cervical myelopathy, stenosis of cervical spinal canal, Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

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