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  • Title: [Reconstructive surgery in complicated trauma of the thoracic and lumbar segments of the spine].
    Author: Iumashev GS, Aganesov AG.
    Journal: Vestn Khir Im I I Grek; 1989 Nov; 143(11):61-4. PubMed ID: 2699120.
    Abstract:
    The article presents an analysis of reconstructive operations on the spinal cord in 176 patients with traumas of the thoracic and lumbar parts of the vertebral column. The operative treatment in acute period consisted in end-to-end anastomosis of the horse's tail roots, in late period of trauma disease of the spinal cord--in reconstruction of the spinal cord defects with intercostal nerves by the type of "collateral anastomosis" or free transplants from the peripheral nerve. The operations performed resulted in an improvement of sensitivity, movement, functions of pelvic organs in part of the patients.
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