The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2007;89:98-107.
doi:10.2106/JBJS.F.00244
© 2007 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.
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Pediatric Spine Trauma

Christopher W. Reilly, MD, FRCSC

Corresponding author:
Christopher W. Reilly, MD, FRCSC
Department of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Room A234, 4480 Oak Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3V4, Canada.
E-mail address: creilly@cw.bc.ca

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The vast majority of spinal column and cord injuries that are sustained in North America occur in patients who are between the ages of fifteen and forty years. Children rarely have spinal injuries and even less frequently have spinal cord injuries. Patients who are younger than fifteen years of age account for fewer than 10% of patients who sustain spinal cord injuries1,2. The Canadian National Trauma Registry data reflect a similar conclusion: in 1998, there were twenty-eight spinal cord injuries nationally in children who were younger than fifteen years of age in comparison with 511 injuries reported for young adults from fifteen to forty years of age3. The base population-adjusted incidence suggests an annual pediatric spinal cord injury rate of 1 in 1,000,000, and an annual rate of young adult injury of 17 in 1,000,000.

However, despite a lower frequency of injury, a number of features unique to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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