ミタニ　シゲル   Shigeru Mitani   三谷　茂    所属   川崎医科大学  医学部 臨床医学　脊椎・関節整形外科学    職種   教授
論文種別	原著
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	Pediatric Traumatic Cervical Distraction Injury: A Case Report.
掲載誌名	正式名：Cureus 略　 称：Cureus ISSNコード：21688184/21688184
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	16(6),pp.e62910
著者・共著者	Seiya Watanabe, Kazuo Nakanishi, Kazuya Uchino, Hideaki Iba, Yoshihisa Sugimoto, Shigeru Mitani
担当区分	最終著者
発行年月	2024/06/22
概要	Spinal cord injury due to trauma is rare in children. We report our experience with the surgical treatment of a cervical spinal cord injury in a one-year-old child with quadriplegia due to traffic trauma. The patient was a girl aged one year and five months. Physical examination findings were quadriplegia and loss of consciousness. Plain computed tomography (CT) of the cervical spine showed a vertical distraction injury of C6/7, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed spinal cord injuries of C1/2 and C6/7. Based on these findings, a diagnosis of C1/2 and C6/7 spinal cord injury (Frankel A) was made. The patient's state of consciousness did not change during the first week after injury; she was managed systemically with a ventilator. On the 10th day after the injury, her consciousness improved, and she was placed in a pediatric halo vest for weaning. However, as the alignment worsened, we operated. A 5 cm posterior incision was made at the median of C5/6/7. Only the spinous process was deployed, a Nespron tape (Alfresa Pharma Corporation, Osaka, Japan) was wrapped between C5/6 and C6/7, and an autologous iliac bone graft was placed at the C6/7 bilateral facet joint. Six months after surgery, bone fusion was complete. At one year and six months postoperatively, tetraplegia had not improved. Radiographs showed no growth disturbances despite residual alignment abnormalities.
DOI	10.7759/cureus.62910
PMID	39040785