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Arturo Chieregato, MD

Arch Neurol. 2008;65(8):1126.

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A 66-year-old man fell from a height of 2 meters while at work. He was quickly attended to by an on-site physician who diagnosed cardiorespiratory arrest. The patient received ventilatory support using a laryngeal mask. He recovered cardiac activity and arterial pressure after epinephrine was administered.

On admission to the emergency department of the trauma center, the patient was unconscious. He had a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3, arterial hypotension, and priapism. While a high-resolution multislice computed tomographic scan showed a fracture at the base of C2 and of its spinous process (Figure, A), the magnetic resonance image showed a complete transection of the cervical spinal cord at the C2 level (Figure, B). The patient was transferred 3 days later to a peripheral hospital intensive care unit where he died 8 days later due to respiratory failure.

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