C. Chauhan et al., THE AVOIDANCE OF SURGERY IN THE TREATMENT OF SUBARACHNOID CUTANEOUS FISTULA BY THE USE OF AN EPIDURAL BLOOD PATCH - TECHNICAL CASE-REPORT, Neurosurgery, 36(3), 1995, pp. 612-613
IN THIS REPORT, we present two cases of subarachnoid-cutaneous fistula
. In both of these cases, an epidural blood patch, a technique frequen
tly used by anesthetists and radiologists, was successfully used to tr
eat the fistulae, thus avoiding the need for open closure.