[Relationship of motor deficits and imaging features in metastatic epidural spinal cord compression].

Objective: To explore the relationship of motor deficits of the lower extremities with the imaging features of malignant spinal cord compression (MESCCs).

Methods: From July 2006 through December 2008, 56 successive MESCC patients were treated at our department. All were evaluated by magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography and were scored according to motor deficits Frankel grading on admission.