Spinal gunshot wounds and infection: a multicenter cohort study.

Study Design: A multicenter retrospective cohort study.

Purpose: To analyze the development of infectious complications from civilian gunshot wounds to the spine and their association with the type of prophylactic antibiotics administered and the duration of administration.

Overview Of Literature: Despite the risk for infections following spinal gunshot wounds, no standardized guidelines exist for their management.

Risk Factors for Failure of Non-operative Management in Isolated Unilateral Non-displaced Facet Fractures of the Subaxial Cervical Spine: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Study Designsystematic review.ObjectiveTo evaluate risk factors associated with failure of non-operative management of isolated unilateral facet fractures of the subaxial cervical spine in neurologically intact patients.MethodsA systematic review of the PubMed, Embase, LILACS, and Cochrane Library databases was conducted in order to determine risk factors associated with failure of non-operative management in isolated unilateral facet fractures of the subaxial cervical spine without facet and/or vertebral displacement, in neurologically intact patients.

Thoracic ligamentum flavum ossification: a rare cause of spinal cord injury without tomographic evidence of trauma in a Caucasian patient. Case report and literature review.

Introduction: Acute spinal cord injury without tomographic evidence of vertebral fracture or dislocation in patients post trauma can represent a diagnostic challenge for the treating physician. The ossification of thoracic ligamentum flavum has been widely published as a cause of thoracic myelopathy, however its association with acute traumatic spinal cord injury is limited to isolated cases.

Case Presentation: we report a Caucasian 37-year-old man who suffered a high-energy thoracolumbar spine trauma in a motorcycle accident with acute paraplegia.