SPINAL EPIDURAL ABSCESS ASSOCIATED WITH EPIDURAL-ANESTHESIA - GADOLINIUM-ENHANCED MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING AND ITS USEFULNESS IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

Authors
HIGUCHI T IMAGAWA A MURAHASHI M HARA H WAKAYAMA Y
Citation
T. Higuchi et al., SPINAL EPIDURAL ABSCESS ASSOCIATED WITH EPIDURAL-ANESTHESIA - GADOLINIUM-ENHANCED MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING AND ITS USEFULNESS IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT, Internal medicine, 35(11), 1996, pp. 902-904
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Internal medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
09182918
Volume
35
Issue
11
Year of publication
1996
Pages
902 - 904
Database
ISI
SICI code
0918-2918(1996)35:11<902:SEAAWE>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
A case of spinal epidural abscess following epidural anesthesia is des cribed. Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance images were essential i n diagnosis of the abscess without frank pus formation, in defining th e extension of the infection, and in assessing the therapeutic effect. The patient was successfully treated non-operatively before neurologi cal symptoms developed and full recovery was achieved.