Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . \. Hemorrhage in the central gray matter on the left side, due to fracture of the dorsal segment. Pathology.—Such an injury is usually attended by a compressionand bruising, or by a laceration of the cord, a disintegration of itssubstance, and a considerable hemorrhage that perforates the cord andis followed by an inflammatory process that may intensify the disinte-gration or may go on to an attempt at repair by the formation of anextensive cicatrix. Fig. 182 shows the appearance of a spinal cordafter a fracture of
Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . \. Hemorrhage in the central gray matter on the left side, due to fracture of the dorsal segment. Pathology.—Such an injury is usually attended by a compressionand bruising, or by a laceration of the cord, a disintegration of itssubstance, and a considerable hemorrhage that perforates the cord andis followed by an inflammatory process that may intensify the disinte-gration or may go on to an attempt at repair by the formation of anextensive cicatrix. Fig. 182 shows the appearance of a spinal cordafter a fracture of the sixth cervical vertebra. The eighth cervicalsegment was crushed and disintegrated, the typical form of the graymatter being obliterated and the tracts in the white matter torn across. 416 PATHOLOGY. 417 A large hemorrhage occurred which penetrated the cord and destroyedthe gray master for some distance above and below the eighth cervicalsegment, being largely confined to the gray matter, especially of theposterior horn. The clot followed the line of least res
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