title: The management of labour using continuous lumbar epidural analgesia in a patient with a malignant cerebral tumour.
abstract: A mother presented at 28 weeks with epileptiform convulsions which were due to a malignant cerebral tumour. Labour and delivery at 34 weeks were managed under epidural analgesia. The infant was healthy, but the mother died several days later following cerebral decompression.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000767:Anesthesia, Epidural; D000773:Anesthesia, Obstetrical; D001932:Brain Neoplasms; D005260:Female; D005909:Glioblastoma; D006801:Humans; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D007744:Obstetric Labor Complications; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic