Acute spontaneous spinal epidural haematoma in a child.
Spontaneous spinal epidural haematomas rarely occur. Patients tend to be in their sixties or seventies. Acute spontaneous spinal epidural haematomas in children without a predisposition for bleeding disorders, trauma, vascular malformations or anticoagulant therapy have seldom been described. We present a case of a 4-year-old girl with a spontaneous cervical epidural haematoma diagnosed with MR.
van Heesewijk
J P
JP
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, St. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Casparie
J W
JW
D000208:Acute Disease; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006407:Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000473:pathology; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*