Nature

Retropulsion of intervertebral discs associated with traumatic hyperextension of the cervical spine and absence of vertebral fracture: an uncommon mechanism of spinal cord injury

Study design: Case report of a 68-year-old male who sustained cervical trauma following a bodysurfing accident. Objective: To describe the pathology of a relatively uncommon mechanism of injury ...
The Korea Herald

Cervical myelopathy hard to detect

A 65-year-old lady suffered walking difficulties for about five months. She visited five hospitals but was not diagnosed with any specific disease. Her symptoms only continued to get worse and finally ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Degenerative Cervical Spondylosis

Degenerative cervical spondylosis is a chronic, progressive deterioration of osseocartilaginous components of the cervical spine that is most often related to aging. Radiographic evidence of ...
Nature

Retropulsion of intervertebral discs associated with traumatic hyperextension of the cervical spine and absence of vertebral fracture: an uncommon mechanism of spinal cord injury

Hayes et al 1 observed, among other pathologies, a posterior C3/4 disc protrusion in a post-mortem study of a fatal cervical hyperextension injury in a 60-year-old man with plain radiographic evidence ...