title: Spinal compression syndromes caused by intradural foreign body.
abstract: Two patients underwent continuous lumbar cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage during craniotomy. In one patient a pituitary adenoma was extirpated through a transnasal trans-sphenoidal approach and the other had a frontal craniotomy for extirpation of an a-v malformation. In these two cases the catheters for the CSF drainage disappeared partly and were forgotten within the spinal canal. These patients were later admitted for spinal cord compression syndromes.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000601:surgery*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed