Open AccessThe case of laesionis caudae equinae
Author(s) -
I. I. Rusetsky
Publication year - 1921
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj79607
Subject(s) - medicine , fell , anesthesia , surgery , paraplegia , dysuria , hiccups , spinal cord , psychiatry , paleontology , biology , urinary system
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.