Abstract
We report a subarachnoid cyst in a 66-year-old woman who was evaluated with MRI after epidural anesthesia for gynecological surgery. Three days after the continuos epidural analgesia for the postoperative pain, the patient complained of motor weakness, hypesthesia and dysesthesia in both legs. An epidural hematoma was suspected with MRI, and a laminectomy was performed.
There was no hematoma, but a cyst was found under the subarachnoid space. Her neurologic symptoms partially improved over 6 months. We reviewed the complications of epidural anesthesia and arachnoid cysts.
