Spinal epidural abscess presenting as acute abdomen in a child
| Autor: | G W Tyson, W E Strachan, A Grant |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
| Předmět: |
Abdomen
Acute Epidural Space medicine.medical_specialty Ileus business.industry Disease medicine.disease Spinal epidural abscess Abscess Spinal pain Epidural space Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Acute abdomen Anesthesia medicine Humans Female Spinal Diseases medicine.symptom Child business Thoracic epidural abscess |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Surgery. 66:3-4 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2168 0007-1323 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/bjs.1800660103 |
| Popis: | Spinal epidural abscess is seldom encountered in children and rarely occurs in the absence of spinal pain. A case is described in which a child with a thoracic epidural abscess presented with abdominal rather than spinal pain. Thoracolumbar radicular inflammation and visceroparietal refexes initiated by a ‘spinal ileus’ probably produced the symptoms and signs of acute intra-abdominal disease. Consideration of intraspinal disease is advisable in all cases of acute abdomen which exhibit atypical features. |
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