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Penetrating Ballistic Spinal Injury

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Penetrating spinal injuries can be classified in to either ballistic (or missile) injuries or non-ballistic injuries (i.e. stab injuries). Civilian experience of penetrating spinal cord injuries varies from country to country, generally dependant on exposure to firearms within the population. Countries without guns will have some stab injuries but the incidence tends to be far lower. Military experience of penetrating spinal injuries is different from civilian experience, because although there will be exposure to gunshot injuries there will also be exposure to blast fragmentation injury. Cases of terrorist bombings may also expose non-military surgeons to similar injury patterns.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, The Royal Stoke University Hospital, University Hospitals of the North Midlands, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

    Stuart Harrisson

  2. Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK

    Stuart Harrisson

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  1. Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham , Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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  2. Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, United Kingdom

    Jowan G. Penn-Barwell

  3. Department Military Anaesthesia, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine Institute Research & Development, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Damian Keene

  4. University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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  5. Academic Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine Birmingham Research Park, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Jeyasankar Jeyanathan

  6. Department Military Anaesthesia, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine Institute Research & Development, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Peter F. Mahoney

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Harrisson, S. (2017). Penetrating Ballistic Spinal Injury. In: Breeze, J., Penn-Barwell, J., Keene, D., O'Reilly, D., Jeyanathan, J., Mahoney, P. (eds) Ballistic Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61364-2_15

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