Painless Epidural Haematoma

Spinal or Epidural Haematoma

Factors in epidural haematoma.

Correspondence Factors in epidural haematoma Editor—Published case reports should serve to either raise awareness of a particular condition and or indicate how a similar problem might be dealt with in the future. In the case of an epidural haematoma, as reported by Tam and colleagues 1 these would come together with the aim of showing how this complication, or its consequences, might be avoided...

Spontaneous spinal epidural haematoma with spontaneous resolution.

Spontaneous spinal epidural haematoma is of unknown aetiology, but it has been associated with hypertension. Treatment is surgical decompression but three cases of spontaneous recovery have been reported. We report the fourth such recovery in a 68 year old hypertensive woman.

Spontaneous cervical epidural haematoma during pregnancy.

Spontaneous cervical epidural haematoma is very rare during pregnancy. We describe a woman who presented with tetraplegia at 41 weeks of pregnancy. She had no previous history of any relevant medical disorder. Her upper level of anaesthesia was at the second thoracic segment. The condition was diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging, and both caesarean section and decompression were conducted 1...

Spontaneous spinal epidural haematoma: a cautionary tale.

Less than two hundred cases of spontaneous spinal epidural haematoma (SSEH) have been reported in the literature and theories as to its genesis are diverse. It is a serious condition, especially if there is a delay in diagnosis, as early treatment confers marked prognostic advantage. We present a case report of a 68-year-old male who was diagnosed as having a spinal epidural haematoma, followed...