Nidharshan S Anandasivam, Nathaniel T Ondeck, Paul S Bagi, Anoop R Galivanche, Andre M Samuel, Daniel D Bohl, Jonathan N Grauer
BACKGROUND: the demographics, mechanisms of injury, and concurrent injuries associated with cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal fracture and/or spinal cord injury remain poorly characterized. METHODS: Patients aged 18 and older with spinal injury between 2011 and 2015 in the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) were identified. Patient demographics, comorbidity burden, mechanism of injury, and associated injuries were analyzed. RESULTS: in total, 520,183 patients with acute spinal injury were identified including 216,522 cervical, 191,218 thoracic, and 220,294 lumbar...
June 2021: N Am Spine Soc J