. Railway and other accidents with relation to injury and disease of the nervous system : a book for court use . lammation of the intervertebraldiscs farther down, with kyphosis, and possibly with theformation of ischial abscesses. Incomplete vertebral frac-ture with contusions of the spinal cord maybe intractable and dangerous sequelaeof accident, insidiousin development andslow in progress. It isoften dififtcult to diag-nose in the beginningbecause of the absenceof any external deform-ity, and of the resem-blance to a variety ofother affections, and forthe reason that extra-dural hemorrhage,
. Railway and other accidents with relation to injury and disease of the nervous system : a book for court use . lammation of the intervertebraldiscs farther down, with kyphosis, and possibly with theformation of ischial abscesses. Incomplete vertebral frac-ture with contusions of the spinal cord maybe intractable and dangerous sequelaeof accident, insidiousin development andslow in progress. It isoften dififtcult to diag-nose in the beginningbecause of the absenceof any external deform-ity, and of the resem-blance to a variety ofother affections, and forthe reason that extra-dural hemorrhage, orpossibly a meningomy-elitis, may be injury may at firstinvolve the substanceof the body of the weretebra, which, accord-ing to Golebiewski, becomes softened, and for at leasta year (or so long as the patient remains in a recum-bent position) there will be no expressed symptoms oftrouble; but when he arises and attempts to walk thew^eight of the body above will lead to compression, theformation of a spinal projection, narrowing of the inter-vertebral canals, pressure upon the spinal nerves, and. Fig. 21.—Deformity due to Traumatic Spondy-litis. (Golebiewski.) PLATE IX. Railway and other Accidents.
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