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Spinal cord compression from precipitation of drug solute around an epidural catheter
1Department of Neurosurgery, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
British Journal of Neurosurgery
|March 10, 1999
Abstract:
We report a previously undescribed complication of long-term epidural catheter placement for the administration of analgesia in terminal malignancy. Spinal cord compression resulted from a drug-related precipitate forming around the epidural catheter tip, which was successfully treated by surgical decompression.