spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma; a case report

Authors

maryam motamedi department of emergency medicine, shohadaye tajrish hospital, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran

alireza baratloo department of emergency medicine, shohadaye tajrish hospital, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran

alireza majidi department of emergency medicine, shohadaye tajrish hospital, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran

farhad rahmati department of emergency medicine, shohadaye tajrish hospital, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran

abstract

spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (sshe) is a rare entity can have several reasons. its prevalence in population is 0.1 per 100,000 with the male to female ratio of 1/4:1. for the first time jackson in 1869 reported a case of sshe and after that it was declared as several hundred cases in literatures. here, a case of sshe was reported in a 52 year-old male referred to emergency department following severe low back pain.

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