Occult epidural chloroma complicated by acute paraplegia following lumbar puncture. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Acute paraplegia complicating lumbar puncture in a leukemic patient with an unsuspected epidural chloroma is described, including the postmortem findings. Lumbar puncture can precipitate irreversible injury to the spinal cord in the patient with an occult lesion causing subarachnoid block. This account, in addition to documenting this phenomenon, suggests a potential advantage to magnetic resonance imaging over myelography.

publication date

  • January 1, 1992

Research

keywords

  • Epidural Neoplasms
  • Leukemia, Myeloid
  • Paraplegia
  • Spinal Puncture

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0026558437

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/ana.410310121

PubMed ID

  • 1543341

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 31

issue

  • 1