Spine with transverse section of spinal cord
GC.5314
Right half of sagittal section of spinal column from the 2nd cervical to the 4th thoracic vertebrae, inclusive, with spinal cord, showing a fracture-dislocation.
From a man aged 28 years whose injury was caused by his slipping down a single step of a stair while carrying a heavy weight.
Separation has taken place between the centra of the 6th and 7th cervical vertebrae with a fracture of the right lamina of the 7th and displacement backwards which has disorganized the cord. The spinal meninges are not torn but there is a little haemorrhage between the dura and the bone. The cord is lacerated and stained with blood effusion which extends irregularly along the cord cephalically as far as the centrum of the 3rd cervical and caudally as far as the inferior border of the centrum of the 3rd thoracic vertebra.
Nineteenth century, late
