Birth injury to the cervical spine and spinal cord.
Mechanical trauma to the cervical spine still occurs at birth. In 2 of 48 perinatal postmortems traumatic damage to the cervical spinal cord was found. Also in this series at least 12% of cases from one hospital showed some degree of trauma to the cervical spine but this was of a lesser degree in individual cases than 20 years ago.
D001720:Birth Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000473:pathology; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D013124:Spinal Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology