title: Upper cervical spinal cord gunshot injury without bone destruction.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This report describes a rare case of the gunshot injury of the spine and spinal cord.
  
  
  METHODS
  A rare case of the bullet lodged intra-durally in the upper cervical region without damaging the vertebrae or the spinal cord. The bullet was removed as microneurosurgical and duraplasty was performed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Surgical management of the gunshot wounds of the spine and spinal cord is not widely advocated and controversial.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Advances in microneurosurgical instrumentation and microscopic techniques may open up a new era of surgical treatment of spinal cord gunshot wounds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Deva Hospital, Turkey. Electronic address: memetsecer@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seçer
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Sanko Hospital, Turkey.
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ulutaş
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Şehitkamil State Hospital, Turkey.
authors.forename: Erdal
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yayla
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Şehitkamil State Hospital, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kadir
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cınar
keywords: Bullet; Gunshot injury; Upper cervical spine