脊髄損傷患者の統計的分析 発生原因と職業分類

Abstract

A few reports have been published regarding the statistical analysis of paraplegics in Japan. Patients with spinal cord lesion discharged from Chubu Rosai Hospital during the past 20 years (1955-1975) were studied. 1. Number of paraplegics discharged from hospital in this period was 403; 392 males and 11 females, where 34 patients died at hospital. Cervical lesion was 79, dorsal lesion 177 and lumbosacral lesion 147 in number. 2. Accident due to falling materials (40%) and accidental fall (40%) were the most common cause of spinal cord injury, followed by accident caused by motor vehicle (17.6%). 3. Physical laborers constituted more than half of paraplegics. 4. Cervical lesion was most frequently subjected by accident caused by motor vehicle, dorsal lesion by accidental fall, and lumbosacral lesion by accident due to falling materials. 5. Paraplegics in their twenties at the time of injury are the largest in number. 6. The older the paraplegic patients, the more cases of the cervical lesion were observed.