Open AccessEpidemiology and treatment of central cord syndrome in the United States
Author(s) -
Dale N Segal,
Zachary J. Grabel,
John G. Heller,
John M. Rhee,
Keith W. Michael,
S. Tim Yoon,
Amit Jain
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of spine surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2414-469X
pISSN - 2414-4630
DOI - 10.21037/jss.2018.11.02
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , epidemiology , concomitant , incidence (geometry) , decompression , surgery , mortality rate , physics , psychiatry , optics
The objective of this study is to demonstrate the epidemiology and trends in management of patients with central cord syndrome (CCS) who present to the emergency department. Recent literature has reported that surgical treatment for CCS have increased over the previous decades.