Chronic pain following spine surgery

Acute and chronic pain following breast surgery

Epidural Hematoma Following Cervical Spine Surgery

STUDY DESIGN A multicentered retrospective case series. OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence and circumstances surrounding the development of a symptomatic postoperative epidural hematoma in the cervical spine. METHODS Patients who underwent cervical spine surgery between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2011, at 23 institutions were reviewed, and all patients who developed an epidural hem...

Cerebrospinal fluid leaks following cervical spine surgery.

BACKGROUND A cerebrospinal fluid leak during cervical spine surgery is a feared complication. However, little is known about the prevalence, management, and long-term course of these events. METHODS The medical records of 1994 patients who had elective cervical spine surgery during an eleven-year period (1994 through 2005) were reviewed. Patients with cervical cerebrospinal fluid leaks identi...

Diplopia Following Spine Surgery: A Case Series

Introduction: Cranial traction leading to 6th nerve palsy is the main cause of developing diplopia following spinal surgery. Very few cases of abducens nerve palsy as a complication of surgery without cranial traction have been described. We review a series of four patients who developed diplopia following spinal surgery only one of which had cranial pins or apparent traction on the abducens ne...

Chronic pain after surgery.

Chronic pain after surgery has until recently been a neglected topic. The extent of the problem ®rst came to light in a survey of patients attending pain clinics in Scotland and the north of England. This survey showed that about 20% of patients attending chronic pain clinics implicated surgery as one of the causes of their chronic pain and, in about half of these, it was the sole cause. An ext...