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Epidural blood patch in a patient with an arachnoid cyst
Robert R Gaiser1, Donald L Mauney, Steven G Imbesi
1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
|March 7, 2002
Abstract:
Arachnoid cysts are relatively common occurrences, with the majority being asymptomatic. The safety of an epidural blood patch in a patient with an arachnoid cyst has not been reported. Our patient had a known thoracic arachnoid cyst and required epidural blood patch for a postdural puncture headache. Magnetic resonance imaging obtained following the epidural blood patch demonstrated no alterations of the cyst or spinal cord compression.