SHORT TERM CLINICALAND RADIOLOGICAL OUTCOME OF LATERAL MASS FIXATION IN SUBAXIAL CERVICAL SPINE INJURY

Abstract

Advances in perioperative care, surgical instrumentation, and understanding of the patho-physiology of trauma have engendered new treatment paradigms for these injuries within the last two decades. Evaluation of outcome of LATERAL MASS FIXATION in sub-axial cervical spine injury in terms of improvement of neurological deficit (ASIA Scale) in one, three, six and nine months follow up. Sub-axial cervical spine injury patients attending OPD, Emergency. Age group: between 15 to 75 years, both male and female. The study was a both retro and prospective, non randomized, uncontrolled, interventional study group. The study was performed over a cohort of adult patients. Our study attested to the safety and acceptability of lateral mass fixation as a established mean of posterior fixation with no failure rate after one year follow up and a lesser operative complication rate.