HYPEREXTENSION INJURIES OF CERVICAL SPINE AND THE SPINAL CORD
- VernacularTitle:过伸性颈椎与脊髓损伤(附25例报告)
- Author:
Lianshun JIA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Cervical vertebrae Spinal cord injuries
- From:
Medical Journal of Chinese People's Liberation Army
1982;0(03):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Twenty-five cases of hyperextensive injuries to the cervical spine seen between Aug 1975 and 1884 were analyzed with regard to the clinical patterns of neurological damage and the reentgenogra-phic features of skeletal and soft-tissue injuries. Acute central cord syndrome was presented in sixteen cases, and in four cases who had a partial cord injuries, two of them had a typical Brown-Se'quard syndrome. The patients had an anterior cord syndrome; three had serious cord injuries, one of them died of myocardial failure on the fourth day after injury. In this series, a hyperextensive mechanism of cervical spine may gave rise to different types of spinal cord injury, but central cord syndrome was most frequently encountered. Conservative treatment was generally used, and the results of treatment were satisfactory in most cases. Diagnosis of hyperextension injuries and the relationship between cervical spine and cord injury were discussed.
