Surgical decompression in acute spinal cord injury: earlier is better

Lancet Neurol. 2021 Feb;20(2):84-86. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30478-6. Epub 2020 Dec 21.

Authors

Andrew I R Maas¹, Wilco Peul², Claudius Thomé³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Edegem 2650, Belgium. Electronic address: andrew.maas@uza.be.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands; Department of Neurosurgery, Haaglanden Medical Centre, The Hague, Netherlands.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

PMID: 33357515
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30478-6

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MeSH terms

Decompression, Surgical*
Humans
Spinal Cord Injuries* / surgery