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Abstract
We reviewed 95 consecutive patients with cervical spinal cord injury admitted within
2 days of injury and treated non-operatively, to elucidate the relationship between
neurological deterioration and the white blood cell count in the first 4 days after
injury. The count for 14 patients who had neurological deterioration was 13.2 ± 3.2
× 109/l, and that for 81 patients who had no deterioration was 11.0 ± 3.1 × 109/l. None of 19 patients whose highest white blood cell count was less than 9 × 109/l deteriorated, while 14 of 76 patients whose count was 9 × 109/l or more deteriovated. These results suggest that the white blood cell is important
in the secondary pathological changes after mechanical injury to the spinal cord.
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Accepted:
October 20,
1996
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© 1997 Published by Elsevier Inc.
