Epidural hematoma after caudal epidural pulsed radiofrequency stimulation

Discordant lumbar epidural hematoma after caudal steroid injection

RATIONALE Caudal epidural injection is one of the conventional treatments of chronic back pain. Even though spinal epidural hematoma after caudal epidural injection is rare but it can cause serious neurologic complication. PATIENT CONCERNS An 83-year-old woman taking cilostazol received caudal epidural steroid injection because of her chronic back pain. Six hours later, she experienced an acu...

Acute Epidural Hematoma after Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Insertion: a Case Report

Background & Importance: Acute epidural hematoma is a very rare complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion. The insertion of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt can cause sudden decompression of the brain, subsequent to which epidural hematoma occurs due to CSF drainage. To our knowledge, there are only a few cases of acute epidural hematoma in the literature which required acute e...

Epidural hematoma after routine epidural steroid injection

BACKGROUND There are few reported cases of an epidural spinal hematoma following interventional pain procedures. CASE DESCRIPTION We report a case of a spinal epidural hematoma in a patient with no known risk factors (e.g. coagulopathy), who underwent an epidural steroid injection (ESI) in the same anatomic location as two previously successful ESI procedures. CONCLUSION Early detection was...

caudal epidural of pulsed radiofrequency in post herpetic neuralgia (phn); report of three cases

conclusions the mode of action of prf is far from being completely elucidated. the high frequency current induces an electric field that in turn seems to influence the immunity, the inflammation and other pain conducting mechanisms. our findings suggest an effect distal from the application of the current. it reaches targets that are difficultly attainable by any other means of current applicat...

An old complication of a new technique: pneumorrhachis from caudal epidural pulsed radiofrequency.