Citation

Albahkley A, Mandurah R, Alharbi A. Saudi Med. J. 2021; 42(2): 232-233.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Riyadh Al-Kharj Hospital Programme)

DOI

10.15537/smj.2021.42.2.20210003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In a study about cervical spine injuries, Dr. Alharbi described the patterns of cervical spine injuries affecting adults in a major trauma center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.1 This retrospective collaborative study comprised adults with cervical spine injuries from 2014 to 2018, excluding patients 13 years of age and below. However, as per the United States Food and Drug Administration Class III classification, the adolescent age group is up to 18 years of age,2 whereas the skeletal maturation is more advanced in girls than boys of the same age because the early pubertal bone ages of 11 years old girls and 13 years old boys are equivalent stages of bone maturation by the hand-wrist method.3 Accordingly, the exclusion of pediatric age 13 years and below was somehow vague, whether based on institutional level or a specifically followed classification of pediatric age.

Studies that focus on cervical spine injuries usually consider including more accurate imaging modalities as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to not miss patients with normal computerized tomography (CT) scans. In a study conducted by Holmes et al4 to describe the performance of adjunctive...

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