SPINAL-ANESTHESIA FOLLOWING PREVIOUS SPINAL SURGERY

Authors
Citation
Ko. Sun, SPINAL-ANESTHESIA FOLLOWING PREVIOUS SPINAL SURGERY, European journal of anaesthesiology, 11(4), 1994, pp. 321-323
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Anesthesiology
ISSN journal
02650215
Volume
11
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
321 - 323
Database
ISI
SICI code
0265-0215(1994)11:4<321:SFPSS>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Spinal anaesthesia resulted in unblocked segments in a patient who had undergone three previous spinal operations. Scar tissue, which often forms both extra-durally and intra-durally after spinal surgery, was p robably the cause of the patchy sensory blockade.