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Unintentional paediatric subdural catheter with oculomotor and abducens nerve palsies
1Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Australia.
Paediatric Anaesthesia
|December 22, 1999
Abstract:
A 13-year-old female with a past history of lumbar laminectomy developed a subdural block 18 h after the commencement of an epidural infusion of bupivacaine 0.125% and fentanyl 2 micrograms.ml-1. Signs at presentation included bilateral abducens nerve palsies in the absence of headache and a previously unreported unilateral third cranial nerve palsy. An epidurogram displayed subdural placement.