A Randomized Controlled Trial of Early versus Late Surgical Decompression for Thoracic and Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord Injury in 73 Patients

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Early versus Late Surgical Decompression for Thoracic and Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord Injury in 73 Patients

Convincing clinical evidence exists to support early surgical decompression in the setting of cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). However, clinical evidence on the effect of early surgery in patients with thoracic and thoracolumbar (from T1 to L1 [T1?L1]) SCI is lacking and a critical knowledge gap r...

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Main Authors: Ali Haghnegahdar, Reza Behjat, Soheil Saadat, Jetan Badhiwala, Majid Reza Farrokhi, Amin Niakan, Keyvan Eghbal, Ehsan Barzideh, Abtin Shahlaee, Fariborz Ghaffarpasand, Zahra Ghodsi, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Mohsen Sadeghi-Naini, Michael G. Fehlings, James David Guest, Pegah Derakhshan, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mary Ann Liebert 2020-09-01
Series:Neurotrauma Reports
Subjects:
acute
lumbar cord
randomized controlled trial
spinal cord injuries
thoracic cord
traumatic
Online Access:https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/NEUR.2020.0027

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