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The Morphology of the Spinal Cord after Traction Injuries
- Authors: Larkin I.I.1, Akulinin V.A.1, Stepanov S.S.1, Sitko L.A.1, Preobrazhensky A.S.2, Zlobin S.B.2
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Affiliations:
- Omsk state medical Academy
- City children's clinical hospital №3 in Omsk
- Issue: Vol 10, No 1 (2017)
- Pages: 36-43
- Section: Original articles
- URL: https://vestnik-surgery.com/journal/article/view/896
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18499/2070-478X-2017-10-1-36-43
- ID: 896
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Abstract
Actuality. Traction spinal cord injuries in children are of particular interest to researchers at present. Tractional damage associated not only with the trauma (SCIWORA syndrome), but can occur during elimination of deformation of the spine.
The purpose of the study was to study the peculiarities of morphological disorders of the spinal cord in traction mechanism of injury. Materials and methods. Performed 3 series of experiments on test machine AL-7 LA10. Dosed stretching of the spine of experimental animals (n=12) varied at 5, 10 and 20% of its original length. After 72 hours animals were removed from the experiment and carried out a histological study of the spinal cord.
Results and their discussion. It was found that after traction cyto - and myeloarchitectonic the cord was changed depending on the degree of stretching of the spine. If a strong tension (20%) of the neurons was exposed to irreversible changes. The recovery of the functional modules was probably due to the reorganization of surviving neural networks.
Сonclusion. The obtained data can be taken into account when planning the operations to eliminate kyfo-scoliosis spinal deformities in children.
About the authors
Igor Ivanovich Larkin
Omsk state medical Academy
Email: larkinomsk@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9872-9881
MD, Prof. of Department of neurology and neurosurgery
Russian Federation, 12 Lenina str., Omsk, 644001, Russian FederationViktor Aleksandrovich Akulinin
Omsk state medical Academy
Email: akulinin@omsk-osma.ru
MD, Prof., the head of Department of histology, Cytology and embryology
Russian Federation, 12 Lenina str., Omsk, 644001, Russian FederationSergey Stepanovich Stepanov
Omsk state medical Academy
Email: serg_stepanov@mail.ru
MD, senior researcher, Department of histology, Cytology and embryology
Russian Federation, 12 Lenina str., Omsk, 644001, Russian FederationLeonid Aleksandrovich Sitko
Omsk state medical Academy
Email: sitkola128@mail.ru
MD, Prof. of Department of pediatric surgery embryology
Russian Federation, 12 Lenina str., Omsk, 644001, Russian FederationAleksandr Sergeevich Preobrazhensky
City children's clinical hospital №3 in Omsk
Author for correspondence.
Email: alecpn@yandex.ru
PhD, neurosurgeon
Russian Federation, 12 Lenina str., Omsk, 644001, Russian FederationSergey Borisovich Zlobin
City children's clinical hospital №3 in Omsk
Email: axon12@rambler.ru
doctor-vertebrologist
Russian Federation, 12 Lenina str., Omsk, 644001, Russian FederationReferences
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