Comprehensive Surgery Department office.
On the professional imaging electronic screen, the head and neck CT scan images of the injured child appeared on the display, with the cross-sectional pictures switching one by one, followed by the three-dimensional reconstructed images rotating 360 degrees, making the entire skull and cervical spine distinctly clear.
Traumatic atlanto-occipital dislocation! It was confirmed.
The atlas had a bone cyst, which due to trauma caused a comminuted fracture. Luckily, the fracture spread outward instead of encroaching into the vertebral canal. This was the reason the boy did not die on the spot from spinal cord injury. However, since his successful rescue from the scene, his limb muscle strength had remained at level one.
This indicated that spinal cord damage was present, but if the injury did not worsen, there might be a possibility of recovery after the surgery.
