RT Book, Section
A1 Huang, Vincent
A1 Mekki, Marwa
A1 Bryce, Thomas N.
A2 Mitra, Raj
SR Print(0)
ID 1162855969
T1 Spinal Cord Injury: Infectious and Inflammatory Etiologies
T2 Principles of Rehabilitation Medicine
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071793339
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1162855969
RD 2024/04/19
AB In  most  high-resource  countries,  the  three  most  common  etiologies  of  non-traumatic  spinal  cord  injury  (NTSCI)  include  SCI  caused  by  tumors,  degenerative  conditions  of  the  spine,  and  vascular  etiologies.  In  contrast,  in  many  low-resource  countries  that  have  high  levels  of  tuberculosis  and  other  infectious  diseases  such  as  HIV,  infectious  causes  are  more  common  than  degenerative  and  vascular  etiologies.1  Given  the  paucity  and  variability  in  what  conditions  are  reported  in  studies  of  the  incidence  of  NTSCI,  the  overall  incidence  of  infectious  and  inflammatory  causes  cannot  be  estimated  with  any  confidence.