The case of laesionis caudae equinae

Patient I, M., 20 years old, farmer. There are no special indications from the side of heredity and personal diseases. August 11, 1920, at the front, 1 soot. an unexploded shell fell from the patient. At the same time, the patient was wounded by a fragment of another shell in the right half of the chest. The patient fell on his back, without losing, however, - consciousness, after 5 minutes. tried to get up but could not walk. Established: paraplegia inferior, ana sthesia to the waist, radicular pain in the lower extremities (anesthesia dolorosa), within 12 days there were symptoms of dysuria and constipation. Later, there was a slow improvement, more pronounced on the left. Weight loss in a year - 20 lbs.