Epidemiological age-based differences in traumatic spinal cord injury patients: A multicenter study based on 13,334 inpatients

Context Compared with younger traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) patients, the elderly had longer delays in admission to surgery, higher proportion of incomplete injury, and longer hospital stays. However, in China, the country with the largest number of TSCI patients, there have been no large-scale reports on their age differences.