Transient paraplegia revealed by intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring: was it caused by the epidural anesthetic or an epidural hematoma?
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Our case report describes the electrophysiological features associated with the development of a spinal epidural hematoma during surgery of the lumbar spine. It stresses the importance of the evaluation of nonsurgical factors, which can potentially affect intraoperative evoked potentials; in this case, epidural local anesthetic or epidural hematoma.
Medical subject headings
- Anesthesia, Epidural
- Anesthetics, Local
- Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial
- Monitoring, Intraoperative
- Paraplegia