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Hugh H. Hussey, MD

JAMA. 1976;236(11):1274.

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A recent issue of Archives of Surgery published a minisymposium on injuries of the cervical spine. A cue to the contents was given in the first sentence of Babcock's¹ introduction: "Spinal cord injury is one of the most devastating accidents that man can incur and still survive." Babcock² also described the thorough roentgenographic techniques that are necessary for identifying and classifying lesions according to mechanisms of injury. In turn, Stauffer and Rhoades³ emphasized the importance of and described the individual methods for surgical stabilization of severe injuries. Feuer⁴ categorized the types of traumatic vertebral deformities and the forms of resultant cord damage and explored the merits of surgical vs nonsurgical treatment.

In sum, the symposium was concerned with severe and serious injuries of the cervical spine. Problems of less severe nature were neglected—a deficiency that is partly corrected in this issue of THE JOURNAL (p 1243) . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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