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Spinal cord compression following labor and delivery with epidural analgesia
J N Simon1, B K Mokriski, B S Gillies
1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore.
Regional Anesthesia
|September 1, 1989
Transient back pain is not uncommon during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Following an epidural anesthetic, back pain persisted in a postpartum patient beyond the expected period of soreness. Further diagnostic evaluation led to diagnosis and surgical decompression of a herniated thoracic disc.
Transient back pain is not uncommon during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Following an epidural anesthetic, back pain persisted in a postpartum patient beyond the expected period of soreness. Further diagnostic evaluation led to diagnosis and surgical decompression of a herniated thoracic disc.