Anterior Cord Syndrome

The anterior (or ventral) cord syndrome is most commonly related to a vascular insult, causing infarc­tion of the ventral spinal cord. This includes corti­cospinal, spinothalamic, and descending autonomic tracts to the bladder. This syndrome results in urinary incontinence, paralysis, and loss of pain and temper­ature sensation. Vibratory and position sense, whose tracts are in the dorsal columns, are spared.