Radiodiagnostics of perinatal neck injuries in newborns and preschool children

Abstract

The research introduces the results of clinical diagnostic radiology of 679 children aged from 7 days to 6 years previously diagnosed with birth spinal injury. The goal of the research is to make clinical diagnostic radiology of birth neck injury comply with the age of children diagnosed. In the course of the research the children have been examined by a children’s neurologist, pathologies and symptoms specific to every age group of children with birth central nervous system injury have been revealed. Neck ultrasonic examination pursuant to our method has been added to a conventional X-ray study of cervical spine. The medical data have then been subjected to statistical evaluation with Statistica 6.0. The strategy for radiological diagnosing most of the cervical disorders in young children with birth spinal injury has been developed. Early and later complications of neck disorders in children of different age have been analyzed.