Abstract:Initial treatment of traumatic spinal cord injury remains as controversial in 2023 as it was in the early 19th century, when Sir Astley Cooper and Sir Charles Bell debated the merits or otherwise of surgery to relieve cord compression. There has been a lack of high-class evidence for early surgery, despite which expeditious intervention has become the surgical norm. This evidence deficit has been progressively addressed in the last decade and more modern statistical methods have been used to clarify some of th… Show more
“…It often takes more than one study or dataset to do so, and there remains much vigorous debate in this area. This excellent study, and the commentary by Birch et al, 23 should be read together.…”
“…It often takes more than one study or dataset to do so, and there remains much vigorous debate in this area. This excellent study, and the commentary by Birch et al, 23 should be read together.…”
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