Paraplegia and intracranial hypertension following epidural anesthesia: report of four cases Paraplegia e hipertensão craniana após anestesia epidural: relato de 4 casos

Four patients who received epidural anesthesia presented sustained myelopathy; three of them had complete paraplegia and one a lumbo-sacral myelopathy with urinary retention. All four patients complained of very intense radicular pains immediately after the analgesic effect of Lidocaine was over. Tw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frederico A. D. Kliemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 1975-09-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X1975000300004