title: [Spinal injury: multidetector computed tomography features and mechanism].
abstract: As one of the severe injuries, spinal injury is common in major blunt trauma and a spinal cord injury can make the patient be disabled or life-threatened with poor long-term physical and psychological consequences. The treatment of spinal injuries is a significant proportion of all the workload of trauma management based on the neurologic defect, spinal column instability, and the compression of spinal cord. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) is the better examination than conventional radiography in depicting the type of injuries, spinal column instability, spinal canal narrowing degree and neurologic defect, and can be performed alone in patients sustaining severe trauma. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the MDCT features of this types of injuries based on the mechanism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computed Tomography, Luoyang Center Hospital, Luoyang 471009, China.
authors.forename: Zhihui
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Zhigang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods; D061330:Multidetector Computed Tomography / Q000379:methods*; D013124:Spinal Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology