Birth trauma and the cervical spine.

Abstract

defined primary deficit of their immunological mechanisms, the other 3 cases were markedly dystrophic infants subjected to protracted chemotherapy. These last 3 cases may also have had an underlying but ill-defined impaired resistance; alternatively, however, the pneumocystis carinii pneumonia could have been the primary disease, which initiated a vicious circle in which both pathological processes were involved. The main pathology of pneumocystis carinii infection and the parasites were limited to the lungs in all 6 cases, despite the generalized character of the underlying

Spinal cord injury in children and adolescents: diagnostic pitfalls and therapeutic considerations in the acute stage

“…Spinal cord trauma due to obstetric complications such as breech delivery has been well documented by Towbin (1969), Jones (1970), Shulman (1971) and De Souza (1974). Maekawa has recently observed a quite exceptional case of complete tetraplegia in a newborn female delivered by Caesarean section and who had shown marked cervical hyperextension on X-rays taken a few days prior to birth.…”