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CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY FROM A VEHICULAR ACCIDENTAL NEAR HANGING INJURY AND NECK MANIPULATIONS

CASE 1 

D.D is a 30-year old artisan who was seen via the Emergency department of the University College Hospital, Ibadan. He presented with features of a C3 traumatic myelopathy Frankel A (Complete SCI) about 8hrs following passenger motor vehicular accident.  He was standing at the back of a semi-trailer truck being driven through a bush in south-western Nigeria. His neck was inadvertently trapped by a telephone wire line hanging between two trees in the bush. It was an apparent incomplete hanging with his feet still in contact with the truck. He remained fully conscious but immediately became quadriplegic with no evidence of strangulation. 

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