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Spinal Cord Compression
Neurosurgery · Neurological
Severe
Severity
Uncommon overall but a recognized emergency complication of several common conditions including cancer and severe degenerative spine disease
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Neurosurgery
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Common causes include degenerative spine disease such as severe disc herniation or spinal stenosis
- 2spinal tumours either primary or metastatic
- 3traumatic injury from accidents or falls
- 4and infections such as spinal abscess. Risk factors include osteoporosis
- 5prior spinal surgery
- 6cancer with a tendency to spread to bone
- 7and age-related degenerative changes. The compression physically restricts blood flow and nerve conduction within the cord.
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