Prabhu Santosh, Agarwal Sidharth, Prabhu Sujata
Department of Neurosurgery, Western India Institute of Neurosciences, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Neuroanesthesia, Western India Institute of Neurosciences, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.
Asian J Neurosurg. 2019 Nov 25;14(4):1288-1290. doi: 10.4103/ajns.AJNS_143_19. eCollection 2019 Oct-Dec.
Spontaneous extradural hematoma is a well-documented but fairly rare condition, which can be associated with conditions such as vascular malformations, sickle cell disease, metastasis to the skull, infectious diseases of the skull, coagulation disorders, and use of anticoagulants. Of these, very few cases are of life-threatening extradural hematomas in adults, where hypofibrinogenemia is the cause of bleed, without any history of trauma. In this report, we have discussed the management of such a patient.