Paraplegia from spinal cord injury after thoracic epidural catheterization performed under general anesthesia [43]

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 513-

  Takii, Yoshitaka ^a   Sunouchi, Koki ^a   Tadokoro, Masao ^a   Murata, Yujiro ^a   Unno, Yoshiko ^a   Hayano, Chie ^a   Yoshikawa, Wataru ^a  

^a Kawakita General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FLACCID PARALYSIS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYDROMYELIA; INFARCTION; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE INJURY;

EID: 33746579855     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000227113.65946.9F     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Kao MC, Tsai SK, Tsou MY, et al. Paraplegia after delayed detection of inadvertent spinal cord injury thoracic epidural catheterization in an anesthetized elderly patient. Anesth Analg 2004;99:580-3.
2. Wilkinson PA, Valentine A, Gibbs JM. Intrinsic spinal cord lesions complicating epidural anesthesia and analgesia: report of three cases. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002;72:537-9.