The results of early conservative and surgical treatment of cervical spinal cord injured patients.

The paper presents the analysis of the results of treatment of 1180 patients with traumatic injury of cervical spinal cord, admitted to hospital within the first hours or days after injury. The analysis of the results of conservative (632 patients) and surgical treatment (548 patients) has shown that the results are to a large extent dependent on the time of commencement of specialistic treatment.