Complete paraplegia following gunshot injury without direct trauma to the cord

Spine

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 2436-2438

  Mirovsky, Yigal ^a   Shalmon, Ehud ^a   Blankstein, Alexander ^b,c   Halperin, Nahum ^a,b  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gunshot would; Laminectomy; Paraplegia; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BULLET; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MYELOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; QUADRIPLEGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL STENOSIS; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 27644437285     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000184588.54710.61     Document Type: Review

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