Ventricles

Topography

Sections

Spinal cord

Pathways

Functional organisation of the spinal cord

Fig. 612

Spinal cord, Medulla spinalis;

schematic organisation of the white matter exemplified

by a lower cervical segment.

Afferent (= ascending] pathways in blue;

efferent (= descending] pathways in red.

*

Clinical term : FLECHSIG's tract

**

Clinical term : GOWER's tract

***

Clinical term : GOLL's tract

****

Clinical term : BURDACH's tract

***** y^e actUat existence of these fibres has not definitely been

documented

The regions indicated by +, ++, and +++ designate descending

collateral tracts of the posterior fasciculi.

+

SCHULTZE's com m a tra ct (cervical part]

++

FLECHSIG's oval bundle (thoracic part]

+++ Triangle of PHILIPPE-GOMBAULT (lum bar and sacral parts]