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Spontaneous Recovery of Penetrating Cervical Spinal Cord Injury with Physiotherapeutic Treatment: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 1

The management and outcomes of stab wounds to the cervical spinal cord reported in the literature.
First authorStab wound to cervical spinal cordSymptomaticConservative treatmentSurgical treatmentOutcome (worsened/improved)
Lin et al. [6], 20051 caseYes—1 caseImproved
Kendall et al. [7], 1998218 casesYes—218 casesImproved
Barkana et al. [1], 199912 casesYes5 cases7 casesImproved
Prichayudh et al. [8], 201564 cases40 cases24 cases40 casesImproved
Como et al. [9], 200545 casesYes—45 casesEight died
Kamaoui et al. [10], 20071 caseYes—1 caseImproved
Dran et al. [11], 20052 casesYes—2 casesImproved
Harrop et al. [12], 200112 casesYes9 cases3 casesThree worsened
Wang et al. [13], 20121 caseYes—1 caseImproved
Demetriades et al. [14], 199689 casesYes—31 casesImproved
Ihalainen et al. [3], 2017168 casesYes142 cases26 casesImproved
Demetriades et al. [15], 1997123 casesYes—14 casesImproved