Significance of the neurological level of injury as a prognostic predictor for motor complete cervical spinal cord injury patients

CONCLUSION: The presence of differences between the presumptive primary injured segment and the NLI might be a poor improving prognostic predictor for motor complete CSCI. The NLI may be useful for predicting the recovery potential of patients with motor complete CSCI when combined with the MRI findings.PMID:33830904 | DOI:10.1080/10790268.2021.1903139

Source: Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine - April 8, 2021 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Osamu Kawano Takeshi Maeda Hiroaki Sakai Muneaki Masuda Yuichiro Morishita Tetsuo Hayashi Kensuke Kubota Kazu Kobayakawa Kazuya Yokota Hironari Kaneyama Source Type: research