Acute monoplegia after lysis of epidural adhesions: A case report

Pain Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 404-407

  Ho, Kok Yuen ^a   Manghnani, Preeti ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adhesiolysis; Complication; Epidural loculation; Monoplegia

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; DEXAMETHASONE; HYALURONIDASE; IOHEXOL; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EPIDURAL DECOMPRESSIVE NEUROPLASTY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LIMB PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MONOPLEGIA; NONSURGICAL INVASIVE THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RADICULAR PAIN; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BUPIVACAINE; CATHETERIZATION; DEXAMETHASONE; EPIDURAL SPACE; FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADICULOPATHY; REOPERATION; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TIME; TISSUE ADHESIONS;

EID: 52949147149     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2008.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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