Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
Spinal Epidural Abscess Associated with Epidural Anesthesia: Gadolinium-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Its Usefulness in Diagnosis and Treatment
Takakazu HIGUCHIAtsuko IMAGAWAMakoto MURAHASHIHajime HARAYoshihiro WAKAYAMA
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1996 Volume 35 Issue 11 Pages 902-904

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A case of spinal epidural abscess following epidural anesthesia is described. Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance images were essential in diagnosis of the abscess without frank pus formation, in defining the extension of the infection, and in assessing the therapeutic effect. The patient was successfully treated non-operatively before neurological symptoms developed and full recovery was achieved.
(Internal Medicine 35: 902-904, 1996)

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