A prospective study of cervical spinal injuries
Journal Title: MRIMS Journal of Health Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Abstract: Cervical spinal injuries are potentially the most devastating injuries. This study conducted in Central Morgue, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, S.C.B. Medical College & Hospital, Cuttack, India will help in better understanding of the mechanism of cervical spinal injury, pattern and distribution of injury along with its fatal outcome. In our study, 64% of cervical injury cases were caused by road traffic accident (RTA) cases. 77% of the population had direct impact on the cervical region at the time of incident while only 23% suffered from cervical injury due to indirect impact or transmitted force. 2% cases were exclusive of spinal cord injury while 20% of the cases had only spinal column (vertebra) involvement and the remaining 78% had both cord and column injury. The most commonly involved cervical column was C5 -C6 (24%) with 30% involvement of C5 vertebrae among 110 cases. Key words: forensic science, forensic pathology, cervical injury, spinal cord, fatal, polytrauma
Authors and Affiliations
Geeta Sahu, Manoj Kumar Jena, Karma Mingyur Bhutia, Jyitish Chandra Choudhury
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