Spinal cord compression immediately following, but unrelated to, epidural analgesia

Continuous Cervical Epidural Analgesia in Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression

Metastatic spinal cord compression is a devastating complication of cancer. Patients may often require high doses of opioids that may cause side effects, myoclonus being one such. A 63-year-old male suffering from malignant spinal cord compression was admitted to our institution. The primary team managed him conservatively with pharmacotherapy with no relief of pain, and he experienced myoclonu...

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...

Spinal cord compression syndrome caused by intraspinal epidural fibrous cord

RATIONALE The spinal cord compression caused by intraspinal epidural fibrous cord. PATIENT CONCERNS All patients in this study had spinal cord compression syndrome caused by an intraspinal epidural fibrous cord, manifested as abnormally increased epidural adipose tissue by imaging. DIAGNOSE These abnormal fibrous connective tissue strips were not identical to the known pathological tissue s...

Epidural hematoma following spinal cord stimulator implant

A 50-year-old male with chronic low-back pain presented to the ED with mid-back pain, numbness, paresthesia and weakness in both legs. These symptoms were preceded by a sudden onset of paralysis below the waistline without loss of bowel or bladder control, which occurred during the surgical placement of a neurostimulator. The device was immediately removed, and the patient’s paralysis partially...

Spinal Epidural Analgesia