Figure 1.
Two variants of a high cervical lesion.
Variants only differ in motor scores of myotomes C5 and C6 for both body sides. In variant 1 bold (black) scores for both myotomes are graded as 5 (intact), in variant 2 italic (red) scores of both myotomes are graded as 3 (active movement against gravity, full range of motion). Both variants lead to the same neurological levels and ASIA Impairment Scale grade.