Post-delivery postural headache: not always a classical post-dural puncture headache.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
We report a parturient complaining of headache after spinal and epidural labour analgesia with neurological deterioration following an epidural blood patch. Further investigation revealed a medulloblastoma within the fourth ventricle. The patient underwent an operation 4 days after the diagnosis, but died 2 years later. The consequences of the use of neuraxial analgesia and epidural blood patch in the treatment of post-dural puncture headache in this kind of pathology are discussed.
Medical subject headings
- Anesthesia, Epidural
- Headache
- Medulloblastoma