Spinal epidural abscess following epidural cannulation for flail chest analgesia: a case report
| Autor: | Shekhar Upadhyay, Navdeep Suini, Sarvpreet Singh Grewal, Nitin J. Peters |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male musculoskeletal diseases Flail chest medicine.medical_specialty Epidural abscess medicine.medical_treatment Spinal epidural abscess Laminotomy Surgical decompression Catheterization Peripheral Flail Chest medicine Humans Paraplegia business.industry Staphylococcal Infections Decompression Surgical medicine.disease Combined Modality Therapy Anti-Bacterial Agents Surgery Analgesia Epidural Radiography Epidural Abscess Anesthesia Spinal Diseases Neurology (clinical) business Complication Thoracic epidural abscess |
| Zdroj: | Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska. 45:80-83 |
| ISSN: | 0028-3843 |
| Popis: | Epidural abscess after epidural catheterization is a rare complication. Neurological manifestations vary and the patient described here presented with complete paraplegia. He was managed by surgical decompression and did well postope-ratively. We present a case report and review of the literature of thoracic epidural abscess following catheterization for epidural analgesia with near total neurological recovery. |
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