Reid H
Acta Neurochir Suppl (Wien). 1983;32:87-90. doi: 10.1007/978-3-7091-4147-2_10.
Mechanical trauma to the cervical spine still occurs at birth. In 2 of 48 perinatal postmortems traumatic damage to the cervical spinal cord was found. Also in this series at least 12% of cases from one hospital showed some degree of trauma to the cervical spine but this was of a lesser degree in individual cases than 20 years ago.
