Is mechanism of injury associated with outcome in spinal trauma? An observational cohort study from Tanzania

• Chibuikem Anthony Ikwuegbuenyi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Och Spine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Neurosurgery, Muhimbili Orthopedic and Neurosurgery Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3646-7713

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• Julie Woodfield ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: julie.woodfield@ed.ac.uk

  Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Och Spine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Neurosurgery, Muhimbili Orthopedic and Neurosurgery Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3645-500X

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• François Waterkeyn,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Och Spine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Neurosurgery, Muhimbili Orthopedic and Neurosurgery Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Department of Neurosciences, Grand Hôpital de Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium

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• Scott L. Zuckerman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Beverly Cheserem,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neurosurgery Unit, Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Andreas Leidinger,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

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• Albert Lazaro,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Muhimbili Orthopedic and Neurosurgery Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Hamisi K. Shabani,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Muhimbili Orthopedic and Neurosurgery Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0966-1062

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• Roger Härtl ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors and contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Och Spine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Halinder S. Mangat

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors and contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3426-2001

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