Abstract
Surgical Outcome and Prognosis of Spinal Missile injuries
Highlights
Spinal missile injuries (MIs) are not so common in most countries, they are common in cities of Iraq due to wars
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of MIs managed in the Unit of Neurosurgery at Ibn-Sina Teaching Hospital in Mosul city, Iraq
The long- term functional disability as a sequence of spinal cord injuries (SCI) resulting from missile injury to the spine is an important problem in our city that needs to be addressed in our society
Summary
Spinal missile injuries (MIs) are not so common in most countries, they are common in cities of Iraq due to wars. Traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCI) are a catastrophe for the individual concerned. Gilpin Smith half a century later, performed laminectomy for a patient with SCI with good result. Despite all this history, the idea that SCI is an untreatable condition remained dominant until the early in the past century.[3]. The surgical intervention for patients with SCI is kept for patients with persistent CSF fistulae, progressive neurological deterioration, and incomplete spinal cord injuries with active neural compression from either an inter vertebral disk, a bullet, or a hematoma within the spinal canal.[7] and for migrating bullet , lead toxicity, spinal instability as a late complication.
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