The future: surgery of the spinal cord?
expert_opinion · Level V
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Abstract
Surgery of the spinal cord is still experimental, and outcomes must be confirmed by more cases. In this field, knowledge and research are still figuratively in the Stone Age. Nevertheless, the author is confident that in the future, with the improvement of surgical and resuscitation techniques and with the introduction of new biotechnologic drugs and molecules that favor axon regeneration and inhibitor blocking, CNS-peripheral nerve connections can be performed with some functional improvement, even in tetraplegia.
Medical subject headings
- Spinal Cord Injuries