Very rare incidence of ascending paralysis in a patient of traumatic spinal cord injury: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

After spinal cord injury, further neurological deterioration up to one to two neurological levels is not uncommon. Late neurological deterioration can occur after two months, mainly due to the syrinx formation. In a rare case like in sub-acute post-traumatic ascending myelopathy, the neurological level may ascend more than four levels from the initial level of injury and it usually starts within a few weeks after injury.

Case presentation

Our case was diagnosed as a case of traumatic spinal cord injury having a lower thoracic neurological level of injury initially, which rapidly progressed over a few weeks into a higher thoracic neurological level. He was operated with pedicle screw fixation of the spine before admission to rehabilitation unit. He was having pro

SUBMITTER: Biswas A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9325770 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature