Spontaneous and idiopathic chronic spinal epidural hematoma: two case reports and review of the literature

European Spine Journal

Enrico Granieri²  Giuseppe Maida¹  Michele Alessandro Cavallo¹  Francesco Garofano¹  Enrico Fainardi¹  Silvio Sarubbo¹ 

[1]Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, S. Anna University Hospital, Ferrara, Italy

[2]Section of Neurology, Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences of Communication and Behaviour, S. Anna University Hospital, Ferrara, Italy

关键词: Spontaneous;    Idiopathic;    Chronic;    Hematoma;    Epidural;    Spinal;   

DOI  :  10.1007/s00586-009-1175-6

学科分类：骨科学

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

A 65-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital for low back pain which had started 3 months earlier. Pain was characterized by a progressively increasing intensity, irradiating into right glutaeus, calf, and foot. This referred pain was associated with paresthesia (numbness and tingling), located distally in the right foot. The patient reported in her history a hospital admission for alcohol intoxication, colon resection, and colorectal anastomosis for adenocarcinoma. No primary or secondary coagulopathies were identified and the patient had never undergone any invasive spinal procedures. She associated the lumbago onset with an accidental fall with a slight back contusion which had occurred in her bathroom, a couple of days prior to admission.

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