OBJECTIVE: Conduct a survey of epidemiological data in medical records, assessing the neurological outcome of patients who suffered gunshot injuries in the spine during hospitalization and who underwent surgery between 1991 and 2010. METHODS: The data were tabulated through descriptive statistics, looking for statistical significance between the neurological improvement and the surgical procedures for each individual case. Of the 290 patients operated on, 115 were admitted to the HGE with clinical sensory and motor paralysis, representing 39.66% of the total, being patients Frankel A the most prevalent in our series. RESULTS: These patients had less possibility of reversal of neurological deficits, with 94.78% showing no improvement at discharge. Patients with incomplete spinal cord injury presented neurological outcome in 94.59% of those operated on. CONCLUSION: There was no statistical significance for the neurological outcome in relation to the surgical procedures performed on patients suffering gunshot injuries in the spine.
Spinal injuries; Wounds, gunshot; Epidemiology
