SCI Regeneration MapWhat the world knows about repairing the injured spinal cord

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A subject this map covers

Early surgical decompression

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Part of: Neuroprotection

What belongs here

When and how pressure is taken off the cord after injury, dural expansion included.

What does not belong here, however close it looks

Elective decompression for degenerative stenosis without acute injury does not belong here.

What has been looked at

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  • Registered or indexed as work in people: 4070 records · 1952–2026
  • Indexed as work in animals: 435 records · 1964–2026
  • Indexed as laboratory work: 10 records · 1987–2014
  • The source has not said who or what was studied: 198 records · 1965–2026
  • No matching published catalogue records are linked above. Human-review status must be checked on the evidence itself.

Published in this map

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Found in the scientific sources, not yet checked

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4713 records

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Where this was looked for, and when

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ClinicalTrials.govlatest collection walk returned no recordsasked on 2026-09-29
Collection window: 2026-09-16 – 2026-09-29
matched in this collection walk 0 · accumulated records across collection walks 7 · still to fetch in this walk 0aim: every record matching this question
Crossrefasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-09-16
Collection window: all dates before the end date – 2026-09-16
matched in this collection walk 1657846 · accumulated records across collection walks 50aim: a sample of the most relevant records. This source ranks a bag of words, so its own total is the size of the corpus that shares some of them, never a set still owed.
PubMedasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-10-12
Collection window: 2026-09-16 – 2026-10-12
matched in this collection walk 6 · accumulated records across collection walks 4692 · still to fetch in this walk 0aim: every record matching this question
The question asked
  • ClinicalTrials.gov("surgical decompression" OR "timing of decompression" OR "expansive duraplasty")
  • Crossrefspinal cord injury surgical decompression timing of decompression
  • PubMed("Spinal Cord Injuries"[MeSH Terms] OR "spinal cord injury"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord injuries"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord trauma"[Title/Abstract]) AND ("Decompression, Surgical"[MeSH Terms] OR "surgical decompression"[Title/Abstract] OR "timing of decompression"[Title/Abstract] OR "expansive duraplasty"[Title/Abstract])

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