GIANT CERVICAL EPIDURAL VEINS AFTER CRANIECTOMY FOR HEAD TRAUMA

Markedly dilated cervical epidural veins and right upper extremity wea kness developed in a 43-year-old man 4 months after contralateral cran iectomy for head trauma. After cranioplasty, his symptoms improved mar kedly and the size of the veins returned to normal. These findings sug gest that enlarged cervical epidural veins may occur without an underl ying vascular lesion and that upper extremity weakness may occasionall y be attributable to spinal cord venous stasis.