Title: Brown Sequard Syndrome Author: Zuhdi Badwan Editor: Aseel Rabadi Keywords: Brown Sequard Syndrome, incomplete spinal cord injury, spinal cord syndrome, Spine, neurosurgery. History Brown-Sequard syndrome (BSS) is classified as an incomplete spinal cord injury, where sensory and motor functions are not completely lost below the level of damage. Brown-Sequard syndrome, named after the physiologist Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard (1817–1894), was famous for his contributions to the fields of neurology and endocrinology[1]. He first published this condition in (1849) and discussed it later on other occasions: one was a case about a sea captain who developed the syndrome after getting stabbed in […]
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