Abstract

Decades of spinal cord repair efforts had been crowned by stem cells SC role as a very recent promising scientific prospect. Many and a lot of work all over the world used SC in very different ways and techniques to overcome the damage in spinal cord whether morbid or traumatic unfortunately until the date without yield. They used SC from placental/umbilical cord, bone marrow, perhaps blood components and recently the adipose tissue. I intended to use adipose tissue derived SC to treat a 70 years old man with a tetraplegia of 30 years due to a road traffic accident cervical 6 vertebral fracture. At the time of case discussion with the patient and his family my plan was to MRI imaging, to see the basic structural damage