Rozhledy v chirurgii : měsíčník Československé chirurgické společnosti
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Authors present case-report of young man with incomplete spinal cord injury after penetrating stab wound. Knife blade entered the skin in the level C3/4 in the back of the neck and directed to the right and downward. Both dorsal spinal cord columns and right half of spinal cord were transected. ⋯ Spinal cord stab wounds are rare. Typical clinical symptomatology is incomplete spinal cord injury. Clinical improvement of Brown-Séquard syndrome in our patient entirely corelates with literature.
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So far, the Load-Sharing Classification (LSC) has been the commonest method employed to identify indication for anterior replacement of vertebral bodies in thoracolumbar spine fractures. The aim of this study was to verify reliability of the LSC method in indications for anterior replacement surgery. ⋯ The authors do not consider the LSC method sufficiently reliable for determining indications for anterior replacements.