Neurological Recovery after Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury Is Superior if Surgical Decompression and Instrumented Fusion Are Performed within 8 Hours versus 8 to 24 Hours after Injury: A Single Center Experience

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 1385-1392

  Jug, Marko ^a   Kejžar, Nataša ^b   Vesel, Miloš ^a   Al Mawed, Said ^a   Dobravec, Marko ^a   Herman, Simon ^a   Bajrović, Fajko F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

cervical spine; SCI; surgical decompression; timing of surgery; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN SPINAL INJURY ASSOCIATION IMPAIRMENT SCALE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLOVENIA; SMOKING HABIT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIME TO TREATMENT; TRAUMATIC CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRA; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; INJURIES; INTERNAL FIXATOR; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COHORT STUDIES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84941242791     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2014.3767     Document Type: Article

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