Seiya Watanabe    Department   Kawasaki Medical School  Kawasaki Medical School, Department of Bone and Joint Surgery,    Position   Instructor
Article types	原著
Language	English
Peer review	Peer reviewed
Title	Pediatric Traumatic Cervical Distraction Injury: A Case Report.
Journal	Formal name：Cureus Abbreviation：Cureus ISSN code：21688184/21688184
Domestic / Foregin	Foregin
Volume, Issue, Page	16(6),pp.e62910
Author and coauthor	Seiya Watanabe, Kazuo Nakanishi, Kazuya Uchino, Hideaki Iba, Yoshihisa Sugimoto, Shigeru Mitani
Authorship	Lead author
Publication date	2024/06/22
Summary	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