J Korean Soc Emerg Med.  2002 Dec;13(4):582-585.

Missed Traumatic Cervical Spine Injury

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  • 1Department of Emergency Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. emsong@smc.samsung.co.kr

Abstract

Cervical spine injury occurs in 3% of blunt trauma patients, and 10% of patients with cervical spine injuries have an associated head injury. The early recognition of cervical spine injury and treatment of the secondary injury are important in the management of trauma patients. At the time of diagnosis of cervical spine injury, 5~30% of patients have been reported to have experienced missed or delayed diagnosis. Of these, 10.5~29% were associated with permanent and critical neurologic injury, for example, death, quadriplesia, ect. The writers experienced two cases of missed traumatic cervical spine injury.

Keyword

Spinal injurives

MeSH Terms

Craniocerebral Trauma
Delayed Diagnosis
Diagnosis
Humans
Spine*
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