[Acute post-traumatic tetraparesis: a developmental complication of cervical arthrosis. Physiopathology, clinical study, prognosis. Apropos of 6 cases].
After dealing with the anatomo-pathology of arthrosis, and then the physio-pathology of cervico-arthrotic myelopathy, the authors describe just now six cases of acute post-traumatic tetraplegia happening as a complication of cervical arthrosis. They do insist on the circumstances of that unexpected coming of such neurologic accidents, on their prognosis very often pejorative, on the necessity of a preventive surgical treatment at the stage of cervico-arthrosis myelopathy not very evolved, which is the only one accurate device to avoid the acute decompensation, insisting at last on the functional sequela most often severe of these complications.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000293:injuries*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011379:Prognosis; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000209:etiology*; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000098:blood supply; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D013997:Time Factors
Tétraparésie aiguë post-traumatique: accident évolutif de l'arthrose cervicale. Physiopathologie, étude clinique, pronostic. A propos de 6 cas.