Preschooler not moving their lower extremities after a MVA

Neurological
spinal cord injury without radiological abnormality / SCIWORA
Sagittal CT without contrast of the spine (left) shows no fractures. Sagittal T2 (middle) and STIR (right) MRI without contrast of the cervical spine shows a round high signal intensity lesion in the spinal cord at T1-T2.

The diagnosis was spinal cord hemorrhage resulting in spinal cord injury without radiological abnormality.

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