@article{ref1,
title="Historical vignette of infamous gunshot injury to spine: "an ailment not to be treated"?",
journal="World neurosurgery",
year="2015",
author="Bollam, Papireddy and Bir, Shyamal Chandra and Konar, Subhas and Maiti, Tanmoy Kumar and Nanda, Anil",
volume="84",
number="5",
pages="1441-1446",
abstract="The increasing prevalence and gloomy socioeconomic consequence of spine injury remain a concern in modern medicine. In this article, we highlight the infamous gunshot spinal injuries of a few eminent personalities across multiple centuries and their sociopolitical impact in context with the evolution of modern medicine. The role of available medicine in these victims was not more than a mere watcher, thus substantiating an infamous quote from ancient literature that describes spine injury as &quot;an ailment not to be treated.&quot;<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1878-8750",
doi="10.1016/j.wneu.2015.03.037",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2015.03.037"
}