Early versus late surgery after cervical spinal cord injury: a Japanese nationwide trauma database study

Abstract Background The management of cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) has changed drastically in the last decades, and surgery is the primary treatment. However, the optimum timing of early surgical treatment (within 24 h or 72 h after injury) is still controversial. We sought to determine the opt...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chie Tanaka, Takashi Tagami, Junya Kaneko, Reo Fukuda, Fumihiko Nakayama, Shin Sato, Akiko Takehara, Saori Kudo, Masamune Kuno, Masayoshi Kondo, Kyoko Unemoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-09-01
Series:Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
Subjects:
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13018-019-1341-4