Figure 1. Spinal cord MRI revealed a lesion on the anterior part of the spinal cord below D5, characterized by STIR (dashed arrow) (A), suggestive of acute spinal cord ischemia with associated edema. The presence of a "snake eye" appearance on axial T2 (green arrows) (B) is furthermore observable and its correspondent on DWI (arrowhead) (C), also characteristic of anterior spinal cord ischemia.
MRI: magnetic resonance imaging, STIR: short tau inversion recovery, DWI: diffusion-weighted imaging