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Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Diagnostic Dilemma

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Perinatal spinal cord injury is a relatively uncommon, but a frequently misdiagnosed disorder. Improvements in obstetric care have certainly led to a decrease in the incidence of birth related spinal cord trauma but unfortunately the incidence of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy is still very high. The exact incidence of spinal cord trauma is difficult to determine because the spinal cord is not routinely examined in far and few neonatal autopsies done in India. Here, authors present a neonate who received treatment for birth asphyxia and then had extubation failure which made the clock tick towards cervical cord injury. This baby had a hemorrhagic contusion of cervical spinal cord.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Motherhood Hospital, CMH Road, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, 560038, India

    Suresh Gowda, Prathap Chandra, Deepa Mohan Sharma, Laxmi Kamath & Mamatha V

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SG, PC, DMS: Patient management; LK, MV: Patient management and manuscript preparation. PC will act as guarantor for this manuscript.

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Correspondence to Laxmi Kamath.

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Gowda, S., Chandra, P., Sharma, D.M. et al. Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Diagnostic Dilemma. Indian J Pediatr 91, 191–192 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-023-04872-7

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