STUDY DESIGN: A case report of blunt cervical spine trauma associated with @entity4 at the C3/C4 level with temporary Frankel/American @entity3510 Association Grade A @entity1688 and motion segment instability without evidence of associated @entity75 ( @entity1566 without radiological abnormality, @entity75 ). OBJECTIVES: By means of a rare and illustrative case, the reader's attention is focused on eventual marked cervical motion segment instability in SCIWORA @entity1 . SETTING: A department of Neurology in Quito, Ecuador and a department of Neurosurgery in Bern, Switzerland. METHOD: A 73-year-old @entity1 sustained blunt cervical spine trauma. After resolution of paraparesis, dynamic studies of the cervical spine revealed translational instability of C3 over C4. The @entity1 underwent segment fusion by intervertebral cage insertion and plate fixation. RESULTS: The @entity1 had recovered almost completely from tetraparesis under conservative treatment. The postoperative course was uneventful. Solid bony fusion of the C3/C4 motion segment was obtained. CONCLUSION: Despite normal cervical alignment, the lack of @entity75 and neurological recovery, magnetic resonance imaging and dynamic studies may reveal marked translational cervical motion segment instability requiring segment fusion in order to prevent ongoing damage of the spinal cord.

Traumatic cervical instability associated with @entity4 and XXXX .

@entity3510 :: ('MESH:D013124', 'Disease') :: ['Spinal Injury'] @entity1688 :: ('MESH:D011782', 'Disease') :: ['quadriparesis'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient', 'man'] @entity75 :: ('MESH:D001927', 'Disease') :: ['SCIWORA lesion', 'bony lesions'] @entity4 :: ('MESH:D004487', 'Disease') :: ['cord oedema'] @entity1566 :: ('MESH:D013119', 'Disease') :: ['spinal cord injury']
@entity1688 :: (MESH:D011782,Disease) :: ['temporary quadriparesis']
