in most severely affected case ( 285 ml instilled 50 days prior to death ) the abnormalities were : ( 1 ) severe breakdown of axons and myelin sheaths of the lower cauda equina and to a lesser extent of other roots at levels as high as the eighth cervical segment , ( 2 ) severe central chromatolysis of anterior horn cells in lumbo-sacral spinal cord with milder degrees of change in the thoracic and lower cervical spinal cord , and ( 3 ) striking vacuolar change and axonal swelling , primarily in the lateral columns ascending as high as the lower cervical spinal cord .
C0007458
cauda equina
C0037925
spinal cord