[Experiences and results in primary management of patients with traumatic paraplegia].

In the years from 1980 to 1987 124 patients in the age of 12 to 87 years suffering from traumatico-spinal cord injuries were treated in the County Hospital of Dresden-Friedrichstadt. The average of age amounts 36.1 years. Our level of medical attendance as to non-operative as well as operative treatment of the spinal injury including the providence of typical complications and the results are displayed here. The letality of the whole group was 25%. The analysis is displayed in the groups of age, by the localisations of the spinal injury and by the causes of death.