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    A dorsal root ganglion (or spinal ganglion; also known as a posterior root ganglion) is a cluster of neurons (a ganglion) in a dorsal root of a spinal...
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    and travels to the dorsal root ganglion. Nerve fibres with the ventral root then combine to form a spinal nerve. The dorsal root transmits sensory information...
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    ganglion (pl.: ganglia) is a group of neuron cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system. In the somatic nervous system, this includes dorsal root ganglia...
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    its body in the dorsal root ganglion. The action signal will continue along the central axon of the neuron through the posterior root, into the posterior...
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    is located within a dorsal root ganglion. The axon leaves the cell body (and out of the dorsal root ganglion) into the dorsal root, where it splits into...
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    pain or ataxia) due to destruction of nerve cell bodies in the dorsal root ganglion. The causes of nerve damage are grouped into categories including...
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    are aggregated in a swelling in the dorsal root known as the dorsal root ganglion. All of the axons in the dorsal root, which contains afferent nerve fibers...
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    Tarlov cysts are defined as cysts formed within the nerve-root sheath at the dorsal root ganglion. The etiology of these cysts is not well understood; some...
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    spinal nerve and spinal blood vessels, and lodges a posterior (dorsal) root ganglion.: 425  Cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae all have intervertebral...
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  • The dorsal root or dorsal root ganglion (that carry mostly sensory signals) may be usefully targeted (called rhizotomy); with the dorsal root ganglion possibly...
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