Wounded caudae equinae with a sharp cutting tool in the upper part

At the end of the last year and the beginning of the present clinic, there was a case in the continuation of two months to observe a one-sided wound with a sharp cutting tool of that part of the caudae equinae, which is adjacent to the lower branch of the spinal cord. Injuries in general with a sharp tool of the contents of the spine are more inflicted by an outside hand than by the victim himself. According to Roesler, who has collected several of these newest cases from the literature (about 50), most of these injuries occur in the cervical part, where they occur twice as often as in other parts. A particularly extensive literary material concerning injuries, mainly of the spinal cord, was collected from the Flatau literature (from 1743 to 1905, with up to 108 works reviewed). In the review of the described cases of injuries to the contents of the spine over the past seven years, I did not have to meet a single case of injury in the lower part of the spine. Thus, cases of this kind, apparently, are far from frequent. In addition, they seem to be very interesting in diagnostics, which is why I thought it was not superfluous to present our case.