Case Study Medicine 2019

Catastrophic thoracolumbar spinal massive hematoma triggered by intraspinal anesthesia puncture: A CARE-compliant case report.

Yin R, Zhu Y, Su Z, Chang P, Zhu Q, Gu R, et al. — Medicine, 2019

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Summary

What Researchers Did

Researchers reported a case of massive thoracolumbar spinal hematoma in a patient with congenital spinal bifida and tethered cord syndrome, triggered by an intraspinal anesthesia puncture.

What They Found

The patient showed little neurologic function improvement at 6-month follow-up after surgery. Emergency MRI revealed massive intradural hematoma from T12 to S2, leading to diagnoses of congenital spinal bifida, tethered cord syndrome, spine intradural hematoma, and paraplegia.

Canadian Relevance

This study has no direct Canadian connection as it is a case report from outside Canada.

Study Limitations

As a single case report, the findings are not generalizable to a broader patient population.

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Study Details

Study Type	Case Study
Category	Neurological
Source	Pubmed
PubMed ID	31593138
Year Published	2019
Journal	Medicine
MeSH Terms	Adult; Anesthesia; Decompression, Surgical; Diagnosis, Differential; Hematoma; Humans; Iatrogenic Disease; Injections, Spinal; Laminectomy; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Punctures; Spinal Cord; Spinal Cord Diseases; Spine

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