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Abstract
Considerable controversy still exists In the early manage-
ment of patients with spinal cord injuries. This is because of the
uncertainty that removal of a compressive lesion w ill improve the
neurological recovery.Recently, CT has been found to be more
helpfull to resolve at least sorne ’ components of the therapeutic
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dilemmas faced in spinal cord injuries.
We have used CT in the past year for spinal cord injuries
to evaluate the role of C T findings in the diagnosis and manag-
ement of spinal cord injuries and to find out their prognostic
values.
Forty-one spinal cord injured patients, admitted to Zagazig
University Hospital between January, 1987 and October 1987 were
studied with CT scanning.
A II cases were thoroughly clinically and radiologically exa-
mined. Neurological evaluation included the determination of the
level, type and extent of cord injury. The latter was determined
according to the ”Yale Scale score” (YSS), both on admission and
on the follow up 3 months after the accident. Then, the relative
recovery of the initial deficit measured as Percentage Recovery
Ratio was calculated .