Lumbar epidural brucellar abscess causing nerve root compression
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Spinal Cord Compression due to an Iatrogenic Lumbar Epidural Abscess
The epidural approach is currently an option in treating pain and in anesthesia. According to the literature [1-4], a rare complication of this technique involves the infection of deep tissues around the catheter or the formation of an epidural abscess (the true incidences of these problems remain uncertain), estimated to have developed in approximately 0.2-1.2% of every 10,000 hospital admissi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Cord
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1362-4393,1476-5624
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3100848