Relationship of cervical soft tissue injury and surgical predication following pediatric cervical spinal trauma and its sequelae on long-term neurologic outcome

• Jasmine L. Hect,
• Michael M. McDowell,
• Daryl Fields,
• Stephanie Greene

Affiliations

Jasmine L. Hect

Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

Michael M. McDowell

Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA; Corresponding author. Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellow, Division of Neurological Surgery, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.

Daryl Fields

Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA

Stephanie Greene

Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA