Correlative pathology and biomechanics of craniospinal injuries : a post-mortem study of fifty fatal cases and a clinical review of 300 treated cases.

The most common findings were tears and disruptions of the intervertebral discs which could not demonstrated in all cases radiologically. There was a positive correlation of cervical cord pathology and cervical spine pathology in 94% of the autopsies. Of the total 300 cases, 60% had simultaneous head and neck injuries of some type.