A PILOT STUDY ON THE LUMBOSACRAL REGION OF THE SPINAL CORD IN RABBITS

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Abstract

15 rabbits. The study clarified The present work was carried out on
the heart on a that the - lumbosacral interarcual sp < /strong>ace shaped nearly playing card and is 7 x 6.5 mm (average) in diameter. It is closed by a relatively strong interatcual ligament which is 1.2 to 1.6 cm far from the skin. The lumbosacral interarcual space lies against the first sacral
(0.5
sulphate spinal cord segment. The lumbosacral injection of barium
the animal length) as radio-opaque material into the
from ml/20 cm
of the dead animals was sufficient to diffuse till the epidural space