@article{ref1,
title="Incidence of spinal cord injuries in Plovdiv and Plovdiv region, Bulgaria",
journal="Folia Medica (Plovdiv)",
year="1994",
author="Stavrev, P. and Kitov, B. and Dimov, S. and Kalnev, B. and Petrov, K.",
volume="36",
number="4",
pages="67-70",
abstract="This retrospective study was conducted to evaluate the incidence of spinal cord injuries in Plovdiv and Plovdiv region, Bulgaria. The study material comprised 980 patients treated over a period of 10 years (1983-1992) in the Clinics of Traumatic and Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery, University of Medicine, Plovdiv, which are the only therapeutic establishment in this region with a population of 750,000 to admit and treat this type of injury. Conservative treatment was applied in 34.46% of the patients using various methods: the method of Gorinevska-Dreving, immobilisation in either a plaster jacket or minerva depending on the injury site, the reclination methods of Davis-Erie or Watson-Jones, cranial extension by Crutchfield. Operative treatment also was used and included posterior stabilisation with or without bone plastics, anterior vertebrodesis in the cervical and thoracolumbar regions from a transpleural and retroperitoneal approaches and anterior vertebrodesis with a partial or complete replacement of the vertebral body.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0204-8043",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}