[Relevant factors in medico-legal prognosis of XXXX ].

@entity1 @entity146 @entity809 @entity7125 @entity4048 @entity10 @entity454
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: @entity7125 ( @entity7125 ) is commonly evaluated in medico-legal practice. With the aim of knowing the determining factors of @entity7125 's medico-legal prognosis, a prospective and observational study was carried out. @entity1 AND METHOD: One hundred and twenty consecutive @entity1 who were clinically observed and evaluated in the Medico-Legal Clinic of Barcelona were studied. Socio-demographic, clinical, radiographic and evolutive factors were analyzed. RESULTS: We included 120 @entity1 with a mean age of 35.6 (14) years (range, 4-74), with a homogeneous male/female distribution. An earlier cervical pathology was detected in 10% of @entity1 ; none of them had previous @entity146 pathology. 95% corresponded to road-traffic accident cases and there were 5 aggression cases. Over 50% of cases involved @entity454 . All @entity1 had @entity4048 , almost 25% had @entity10 and 13% had @entity809 . According to the Whiplash Association Disorders clinical classification, distribution in grades (G) was: G I 51%, G II 32% and G III 17%. @entity1 reported recovery within a mean time of 71.6 (46) days (range, 4-244), with 51,2 (45) no working days (range, 0-180 days). The 52% of the @entity1 rest with complains. According to the recovery time, the following medico-legal prognostic factors were identified: age (p < 0.001), being female (p = 0.001), clinical grade (p < 0.001) and abnormal cervical MRI exploration (p < 0.001). @entity1 with previous cervical pathology reported more complaints (p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: In our study, @entity7125 affected young @entity1 of both sex mainly during rear-end collision. Worst medico-legal prognostic factors were age, being females, severity of initial clinical symptoms, previous cervical pathology and abnormal cervical MRI/CT.
