Acute epidural haematoma following epidural steroid injection in a patient with spinal stenosis

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 837-839

  Shanthanna, H ^a   Park, J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MORPHINE; STEROID; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EPIDURAL SPACE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIMB WEAKNESS; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SITTING; THORACIC EXTRADURAL HEMATOMA; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, SPINAL; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 80051796423     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06770.x     Document Type: Article

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