Melationship between changes functional ability of patients with acute spinal cord injury and severity of damage revealed with MRI

Objective To study the relationship between the changes of functional ability of 25 patients with caute spinal cord injury and the severity of damages with MRI.Methods 25 patients were examined with 0.205T signa MR and 72 hours after acute spinal cord injury and these changes of various functional ability were recorded.The relatiouship of the area of the lesion,the classification of MRI signals,the spinal cord compression and the narrowing of the vertebral tube were a factor of little significance (P0.05).Conclusion The area of lesion,the changes of MRI signals,the spinal cord compression and the narrowing of vertebral tube are important factors to result in the changes of nerve functions while the fracture of vertebral body is a factor of little significance..