Paraplegia Following Spinal Cord Contusion from an Indirect Gunshot Injury

Spinal cord injuries are debilitating and life threatening. Paraplegia due to direct traumatic gunshot injury to the spinal cord is common. The most common cause of spinal cord injury is road traffic accidents. This is followed by spinal cord injury due to a fall from a height. Most of the spinal co...

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Autores principales: Khan, Khuram, Dieudonne, Beatrice, Saeed, Saqib, Alothman, Sara, Saeed, Yasir, Gray, Sanjiv
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Neurotraumatology Society 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5949521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29774197
http://dx.doi.org/10.13004/kjnt.2018.14.1.32
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author Khan, Khuram
Dieudonne, Beatrice
Saeed, Saqib
Alothman, Sara
Saeed, Yasir
Gray, Sanjiv
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Gray, Sanjiv
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description Spinal cord injuries are debilitating and life threatening. Paraplegia due to direct traumatic gunshot injury to the spinal cord is common. The most common cause of spinal cord injury is road traffic accidents. This is followed by spinal cord injury due to a fall from a height. Most of the spinal cord injuries due to gunshot wounds occur as a result of direct traumatic effects. We present a rare case of a 49-year-old male with trauma. He developed paraplegia after a gunshot wound injury to the neck and contusion to the spinal cord, with no direct trauma. Paraplegia due to direct gunshot injury can have many different outcomes. In our case, the patient was managed conservatively, and the outcome was favorable.
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spelling pubmed-59495212018-05-17 Paraplegia Following Spinal Cord Contusion from an Indirect Gunshot Injury Khan, Khuram Dieudonne, Beatrice Saeed, Saqib Alothman, Sara Saeed, Yasir Gray, Sanjiv Korean J Neurotrauma Case Report Spinal cord injuries are debilitating and life threatening. Paraplegia due to direct traumatic gunshot injury to the spinal cord is common. The most common cause of spinal cord injury is road traffic accidents. This is followed by spinal cord injury due to a fall from a height. Most of the spinal cord injuries due to gunshot wounds occur as a result of direct traumatic effects. We present a rare case of a 49-year-old male with trauma. He developed paraplegia after a gunshot wound injury to the neck and contusion to the spinal cord, with no direct trauma. Paraplegia due to direct gunshot injury can have many different outcomes. In our case, the patient was managed conservatively, and the outcome was favorable. Korean Neurotraumatology Society 2018-04 2018-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5949521/ /pubmed/29774197 http://dx.doi.org/10.13004/kjnt.2018.14.1.32 Text en Copyright © 2018 Korean Neurotraumatology Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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