Kim Sung Hoon, Song Geun Sung, Son Dong Wuk, Lee Sang Won
Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Yangsan Pusan National University, Yangsan, Korea.
J Korean Neurosurg Soc. 2010 Dec;48(6):544-6. doi: 10.3340/jkns.2010.48.6.544. Epub 2010 Dec 31.
Paraplegia following spinal epidural anesthesia is extremely rare. Various lesions for neurologic complications have been documented in the literature. We report a 66-year-old female who developed paraplegia after left knee surgery for osteoarthritis under spinal epidural anesthesia. In the recovery room, paraplegia and numbness below T4 vertebra was checked. A magnetic resonance image (MRI) scan showed a spinal thoracic intradural extramedullary (IDEM) tumor. After extirpation of the tumor, the motor weakness improved to the grade of 3/5. If a neurologic deficit following spinal epidural anesthesia does not resolve, a MRI should be performed without delay to accurately diagnose the cause of the deficit and optimal treatment should be rendered for the causative lesion.
脊髓硬膜外麻醉后发生截瘫极为罕见。文献中已记载了各种神经系统并发症的病变情况。我们报告一名66岁女性,她在脊髓硬膜外麻醉下接受左膝骨关节炎手术后出现了截瘫。在恢复室检查发现T4椎体以下截瘫和麻木。磁共振成像(MRI)扫描显示胸段脊髓硬膜内髓外(IDEM)肿瘤。肿瘤切除后,运动无力改善至3/5级。如果脊髓硬膜外麻醉后出现神经功能缺损未缓解,应立即进行MRI检查以准确诊断缺损原因,并对致病病变进行最佳治疗。