A novel approach for assigning levels to monkey and human lumbosacral spinal cord based on ventral horn morphology.

Proper identification of spinal cord levels is crucial for clinical-pathological and imaging studies in humans, but can be a challenge given technical limitations. We have previously demonstrated in non-primate models that the contours of the spinal ventral horn are determined by the position of mot...

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Main Authors: Cassandra Gross, Brian Ellison, Aron S Buchman, Ei Terasawa, Veronique G VanderHorst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5443490?pdf=render