Citation

Lee KS, Doh JW, Bae HG, Yun IG. Paraplegia 1996; 34(3): 176-178.

Affiliation

Department of Neurosurgery, Soonchunhyang University Chonan Hospital, Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group -- Palgrave-Macmillan)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8668360

Abstract

We report a case of a central cord syndrome in a 7 year-old girl. After several handstands, with sudden upper thoracic back pain and weakness of the legs 2 to 3 h later, then rapidly progressive tetraplegia with apnea. Plain X-rays and CT myelography of the cervical spine revealed no abnormalities. Although the initial neurological deficit was severe enough to require the child to be placed on a mechanical ventilator, she recovered to be able to walk on the 24th hospital day. Since the development of a central cord syndrome after handstands is exceptional in a child with a normal cervical spine, we report here briefly.

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