An Autopsy Case of Relatively Fresh Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

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This paper reports an autopsy case of a patient who died of complication of pneumonia four months after cervical spinal cord injury.The X-ray photograph of cervical vertebra was normal before his death and there was an anesthesia below the level of C4.At Autopsy, tears of intervertebral disc were observed between the vertebral body C3 and C4, and also between C5 and C6. At these points, intervertebral discs were prominent toward cervical spinal cord which was compressed and flattened.According to the histological examination, deviation and degeneration of sensory nurve fiber were seen in the central side from the injured part and deviation and degenertion of motoric nurve were seen in the peripheral side.
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