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Distribution and Connections of Afferent Fibres in the Spinal Cord

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Somatosensory System

Part of the book series: Handbook of Sensory Physiology ((SENSORY,volume 2))

Abstract

Upon entering the spinal cord through the dorsolateral sulcus the dorsal root fibers penetrate into various depths along the dorsomedial border of the dorsal grey column. The narrow strip occupied in the dorsal funiculus (dorsal white column) by the primary sensory fibers at or near the level of their entrance (the so-called root entrance zone) closely follows the medial borderline of the dorsal horn, its length and orientation thus varies in different regions of the cord. The concepts of a lateral division of the rootlets entering Lissauer’s tract and containing mainly small calibered fibers (Ranson, 1913) has been questioned recently (Earle, 1952; Wall, 1962) but with certain modifications appears to be still acceptable (Szentágothai, 1964a) (see paragraph 1.4).

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Réthelyi, M., Szentágothai, J. (1973). Distribution and Connections of Afferent Fibres in the Spinal Cord. In: Iggo, A. (eds) Somatosensory System. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65438-1_8

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