Experimental Study of Spinal Cord Blood Flow of the Canine

Abstract

The authers measured focal spinal cord blood flow using oxygen electrode and observed its microangiogram in 40 canines compressed cervical cord at the C_3-4 sement from the posterir. The oxygen electrode was inserted into the central of the spinal cord 1cm cranially or caudally to the compressed point. After posteriror compression for an hour microangiogram was performed using micropaque.
Polarographic oxygen tension may well reflect the focal spinal cord blood flow.
The corvical cord blood flow decreased more significantly by two point compression, whereas little decreased by one point compression.
Microangiographic findings supported these polarographic deta.