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Spinal cord compression during chronic epidural morphine administration in a cancer patient
D van Diejen1, J J Driessen, J H Kaanders
1Department of Anaesthesiology, St Radboud Hospital, Catholic University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Anaesthesia
|November 1, 1987
Abstract:
A case is described of thoracic spinal cord compression that occurred during continuous epidural administration of morphine. Sensory loss and motor weakness in the legs disappeared after catheter removal and antibiotic treatment.