Paraplegia associated with combined spinal-epidural anaesthesia caused by preoperatively unrecognized spinal vertebral metastasis

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1165-1167

  Kararmaz, A ^a   Turhanoglu, A ^a   Arslan, H ^a   Kaya, S ^a   Turhanoglu, S ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Combined spinal epidural anesthesia; Complications, paraplegia; Tumour of vertebrae

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0036786357     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-6576.2002.460919.x     Document Type: Article

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