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Paraplegia associated with combined spinal‐epidural anaesthesia caused by preoperatively unrecognized spinal vertebral metastasis
Author(s) -
Kararmaz A.,
Turhanoglu A.,
Arslan H.,
Kaya S.,
Turhanoglu S.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1034/j.1399-6576.2002.460919.x
Subject(s) - medicine , paraplegia , spinal cord , anesthesia , complication , surgery , spinal anesthesia , combined spinal epidural , thoracic vertebrae , lumbar vertebrae , lumbar , psychiatry
We describe a case of paraplegia following combined spinal‐epidural anaesthesia. It was postoperatively determined that a tumour of the vertebrae which was compressing the spinal cord was responsible for this complication. We suggest that the pre‐existing pathology of the spine must be borne in mind as a differential diagnosis of acute postoperative paraplegia.