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Abstract
There are certain differences between the mechanism of injury and the course and results
of treatment of post-traumatic spinal cord injuries in younger and older victims.
Between 1965 and 1990 there were 564 patients over 60 years of age with spinal cord
or cauda equina injuries treated at the Spinal Cord Centre in Konstancin, Poland.
This article presents the level and degree of the nervous system injury, the methods
of treatment and early mortality in the series. Of the patients, 43 per cent were
aged between 60 and 65 years, but 31 per cent were patients over 70 years of age.
More patients sustained injury to the cervical spine (72 per cent), and 42 per cent
of lesions to the spinal cord were neurologically assessed as complete transverse
cases. This paper stresses the high mortality rate, amounting to 26 per cent overall
and 48 per cent in the groups with complete spinal cord lesions.
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Publication history
Accepted:
December 4,
1991
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© 1992 Published by Elsevier Inc.
