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Trauma is the main cause of acute spinal cord compression followed by compression due to metastasis. | Trauma is the main cause of acute spinal cord compression followed by compression due to metastasis. The annual incidence rates of spinal cord compression is estimated approximately to be 8-246 cases per 100,000 population. | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] ; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aditya Ganti M.B.B.S. [2]
Overveiw
Trauma is the main cause of acute spinal cord compression followed by compression due to metastasis. The annual incidence rates of spinal cord compression is estimated approximately to be 8-246 cases per 100,000 population.
Epidemiology and Demographics
Incidence
- The annual incidence rates of spinal cord compression is estimated approximately to be 8-246 cases per 100,000 population.[1][2]
Prevalence
- The annual prevalence of spinal cord compression is estimated to 236 to 1,298 per million pouplation.
Demographics
Gender
Men are more commonly affected with spinal cord compression than females. The male to female ratio is approximately 4 to 1.
Race
There is no racial predilection to spinal cord compression.
References
- ↑ McKinley W, Santos K, Meade M, Brooke K (2007). "Incidence and outcomes of spinal cord injury clinical syndromes". J Spinal Cord Med. 30 (3): 215–24. PMC 2031952. PMID 17684887.
- ↑ Silva GT, Bergmann A, Thuler LC (2015). "Incidence, associated factors, and survival in metastatic spinal cord compression secondary to lung cancer". Spine J. 15 (6): 1263–9. doi:10.1016/j.spinee.2015.02.015. PMID 25687415.