Traumatic spinal cord injuries in Turkey: A nation-wide epidemiological study

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dc.authorscopusid56234370600
dc.authorscopusid23396967300
dc.authorscopusid56079340700
dc.authorscopusid6504446909
dc.authorscopusid6602168431
dc.authorscopusid8892280000
dc.authorscopusid7004473448
dc.contributor.authorKaracan I.
dc.contributor.authorKoyuncu H.
dc.contributor.authorPekel Ö.
dc.contributor.authorSümbülo?lu G.
dc.contributor.authorKirnap M.
dc.contributor.authorDursun H.
dc.contributor.authorKalkan A.
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-12T10:25:10Z
dc.date.available2024-06-12T10:25:10Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.description.abstractStudy design: An epidemiological study conducted all over the country. Objective: The present retrospective study was conducted to survey the new traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) cases during 1992 in Turkey. Setting: Intensive care units, emergency services and departments of orthopaedic surgery, neurosurgery and rehabilitation of state hospitals, rehabilitation centers, military and university hospitals. Methods: Postal questionnaires were used for data collection and the records from medical institutes nation-wide were reviewed for the analysis of the epidemiological factors. Results: Five hundred and eighty-one new traumatic SCI cases were reported in 1992. The annual incidence was found to be 12.7 per million population. Male to female ratio was 2.5:1 and the average age at injury was 35.5 ± 15.1 (35.4 ± 14.8 for males and 35.9 ± 16.0 for females). The most common cause of injury was motor vehicle accidents (48.8%) followed by falls (36.5%), stab wounds (3.3%), gunshot injuries (1.9%) and injuries from diving (1.2%). One hundred and eighty-seven patients (32.18%) were tetraplegic and 394 patients (67.8%) were paraplegic. The most common level of injury was C5 among tetraplegics and T12 among paraplegics. The most prevalent associated injury was head trauma followed by extremity fractures. Severe head trauma resulting in death may obscure the real incidence of SCI and may cause underreporting of cases in epidemiological studies. Conclusion: Considering that motor vehicle accidents and falls were found to be the leading causes of traumatic SCI, it was concluded that the prevention measures should be focused mainly on these in order to reduce the frequency of SCI in Turkey.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/sj.sc.3101064
dc.identifier.endpage701en_US
dc.identifier.issn1362-4393
dc.identifier.issue11en_US
dc.identifier.pmid11114778en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-0033670579en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage697en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1038/sj.sc.3101064
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14551/16215
dc.identifier.volume38en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMeden_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNature Publishing Groupen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSpinal Corden_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectEpidemiology; Spinal Cord Injury; Turkeyen_US
dc.subjectAccident Prevention; Adult; Article; Diving; Falling; Female; Gunshot Injury; Head Injury; Human; Incidence; Limb Fracture; Major Clinical Study; Male; Paraplegia; Prevalence; Priority Journal; Quadriplegia; Retrospective Study; Spinal Cord Injury; Stab Wound; Traffic Accident; Turkey (Republic)en_US
dc.titleTraumatic spinal cord injuries in Turkey: A nation-wide epidemiological studyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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