SPONTANEOUS EPIDURAL HEMATOMA DISCOVERED UPON EVALUATION OF A CALCIFIED DISK HERNIATION

A female renal transplant recipient had intractable femoral neuralgia due to a large calcified disk herniation, She then developed an anteri or epidural hematoma above the herniation, from T12 to L2, in the abse nce of clotting disorders, Spontaneous resorption of the hematoma occu rred, The femoral neuralgia resolved after surgical treatment of the h erniation, The location of the hematoma suggests that the calcified di sk may have torn the fragilized epidural venous network.