Table 3.

MRI timings and findings for patients with acute spinal cord infarction.

Case	Spinal level	Onset to initial T2	HSI on initial T2	HSI on fu T2	HSI patterns	Onset to DWI	DWI/ADC	VB infarction	Etiology
1	C2	3 d	Yes	No fu	Anterior U/V	3 d	Restriction	No	Unknown
2	C4-5	12 h	No	Yes	Anteromedial spot	41 h	Restriction	No	Unknown
3	C4	24 h	Yes	Prominent	Owl's eye	32 h	Restriction	Yes	Unknown
4	T12	3 h	No	Yes	Hologrey	4 d	Restriction	No	Unknown
5	C5-6	4 h	No	Yes	Anterior pencil-like	25 h	Restriction	No	Unknown
6	T6-9	7 h	No	Yes	Holocord	7 d	Restriction	No	Aortic atherosclerosis
7	C6-T1	3 h	No	Yes	Anterior pencil-like and U/V shape	14 h	Restriction	No	Unknown
8	T10	24 h	Yes	Prominent	Hologrey	4 d	Restriction	Yes	Insufficient study
9	T9-10	4 d	Yes	No fu	Posteromedial spot	4 d	Restriction	Yes	Intercostal artery occlusion
10	T4-5	3 h	No	Yes	Owl's eye	11 h	Restriction	No	Unknown
11	T10-11	7 h	No	Yes	Anteromedial spot	48 h	Restriction	No	Unknown
12	T8-9	9 h	No	Yes	Hologrey	3 d	Restriction	No	Aortic atherosclerosis
13	T11-L1	4 h	No	Yes	Hologrey	60 h	Restriction	Yes	Unknown
14	T12-L1	24 h	Yes	Prominent	Anterior pencil-like	7 d	Restriction	Yes	Insufficient study

HSI, high signal intensity; fu, follow up; DWI, diffusion weighted imaging; ADC, apparent diffusion coefficient; VB, vertebral body; d, days; h, hours.