Spinal cord injury without osseous spine fracture

Sixteen patients with spinal cord injury without osseous spine fracture and 55 patients with spinal cord injury with osseous spine fracture aged from birth through 18 years were studied. Those without osseous fracture were younger (mean age 6 years) than were those with osseous fracture (mean age 16...

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Published inJournal of pediatric orthopaedics Vol. 8; no. 2; p. 153
Main Authors Yngve, D A, Harris, W P, Herndon, W A, Sullivan, J A, Gross, R H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.03.1988
Subjects
Adolescent
Child
Child, Preschool
Extravasation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Materials - complications
Female
Fractures, Bone - complications
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Male
Prognosis
Radiography
Spinal Cord - diagnostic imaging
Spinal Cord Injuries - complications
Spinal Cord Injuries - diagnostic imaging
Spinal Cord Injuries - therapy
Spinal Injuries - complications
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Summary:Sixteen patients with spinal cord injury without osseous spine fracture and 55 patients with spinal cord injury with osseous spine fracture aged from birth through 18 years were studied. Those without osseous fracture were younger (mean age 6 years) than were those with osseous fracture (mean age 16 years). Extravasation of myelographic dye from the spinal canal was a poor prognostic sign. All three in the group with this finding without osseous fracture had complete spinal cord lesions. Those without osseous fracture should be followed for the development of late spinal deformity that may require orthotic support or surgical stabilization.
ISSN:0271-6798
DOI:10.1097/01241398-198803000-00006