Traumatic spinal cord injury: unusual recovery in 3 children.
We report on 3 children with traumatic spinal cord injury. All of them had normal x-rays of the vertebral column. There were no abnormalities of the spinal cord in myelography or magnetic resonance imaging. Although these situations are often associated with a poor neurological prognosis, we observed very unusual recoveries in these 3 cases.
Department of Surgery, University Children's Hospital, Zürich.
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Meuli
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Sacher
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Lässer
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003288:Contusions / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000098:blood supply; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000150:complications*