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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)

Paolo Missori 
1   Department of Human Neurosciences, Neurosurgery, Policlinico Umberto I, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
,
Vito Chiarella
1   Department of Human Neurosciences, Neurosurgery, Policlinico Umberto I, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
,
Simone Peschillo 
2   Department of Neurosurgery, University of Catania, Sicily, Italy
,
Sergio Paolini
3   IRCCS NEUROMED, Pozzilli, (IS), Italy
,
Antonio Currà 
4   Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Academic Neurology Unit, Ospedale “A. Fiorini” Terracina, LT, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Polo Pontino, Italy
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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

Ethics Approval

All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.




Publication History

Received: 19 March 2022

Accepted: 07 September 2022

Accepted Manuscript online:
07 September 2022

Article published online:
23 May 2023

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