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CT recognition of spinal epidural air after chest tube placement
L J Schneider1, J O Haller, H Cao
1Department of Radiology, State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn 11203, USA.
Pediatric Radiology
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
Intraspinal air has been described in patients undergoing diagnostic lumbar puncture and epidural analgesia, as a manifestation of degenerative disk disease, and after less common mechanisms, such as blunt trauma [1], strenuous exercise [2], and pelvic trauma [3]. We report a case of spinal epidural emphysema incidentally noted on CT after placement of a thoracostomy tube.