Abstract
A survey based on interviews with all Norwegian hospitals, 62 in number, showed that in 1974 and 1975 respectively 65 and 66 traumatic spinal cord and cauda equina lesions were treated in Norway, a total of 131 or 16.5/million inhabitants/year.
Similar content being viewed by others
Article PDF
References
Gehrig, R & Michaelis, L S (1968). Statistics of acute paraplegia and tetraplegia on a national scale: Switzerland 1960-67. Paraplegia, 5, 93–95.
Guttmann, Sir L (1973). Spinal Cord Injuries. Comprehensive Management and Research. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, p. 34.
Kurtzke, J F (1975). Epidemiology of spinal cord injury. Experimental Neurology, 48, 163–236.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Gjone, R., Nordlie, L. Incidence of traumatic paraplegia and tetraplegia in Norway: a statistical survey of the years 1974 and 1975. Spinal Cord 16, 88–93 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1978.14
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1978.14
Keywords
This article is cited by
-
Incidence of traumatic spinal cord injury worldwide: a systematic review
European Spine Journal (2015)
-
Neurologische und funktionelle Erholung nach Querschnittl�hmung
Der Orthop�de (2005)
-
Epidemiology of spinal cord lesions in Denmark
Spinal Cord (1990)
-
Incidence of spinal cord injury in the Federal Republic of Germany
Neurosurgical Review (1989)