The Central Cord Syndrome in Patients with Cervical Spinal Cord Tumors: A 19th-Century Vignette from (Karl) Julius Vogel (1814–1880)

Paolo Missori; Vito Chiarella; Simone Peschillo; Sergio Paolini; Antonio Currà

doi:10.1055/a-1938-0132

Journal of Neurological Surgery Part A: Central European Neurosurgery, Table of Contents

J Neurol Surg A Cent Eur Neurosurg 2023; 84(05): 467-469
DOI: 10.1055/a-1938-0132

Historical Article

The Central Cord Syndrome in Patients with Cervical Spinal Cord Tumors: A 19th-Century Vignette from (Karl) Julius Vogel (1814–1880)

Authors

Paolo Missori

¹Department of Human Neurosciences, Neurosurgery, Policlinico Umberto I, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Vito Chiarella

¹Department of Human Neurosciences, Neurosurgery, Policlinico Umberto I, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Simone Peschillo

²Department of Neurosurgery, University of Catania, Sicily, Italy
Sergio Paolini

³IRCCS NEUROMED, Pozzilli, (IS), Italy
Antonio Currà

⁴Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Academic Neurology Unit, Ospedale “A. Fiorini” Terracina, LT, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Polo Pontino, Italy

Abstract

Between 1830 and 1850, (Karl) Julius Vogel was one of the most important German pathologists. He received his doctorate in medicine in 1838 from the University of Munich and habilitation in pathology in 1840. In 1846, he moved to the University of Giessen as a full professor of pathology. From 1855, he taught special pathology and therapy at the University of Halle and became director of the internal clinic. Vogel and Heinrich Adolph Karl Dittmar were the first clinicians to describe the symptoms and pathologic findings of the central cord syndrome in a cervical spine tumor.

Keywords

central cord - cervical - history - spinal cord - syndrome - tumor

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