Epidural abscess after epidural anesthesia and continuous epidural analgesia in a patient with gastric lymphoma.
A case of spinal epidural abscess, a rare but possibly devastating complication of epidural instrumentation and catheterization, is described in an immunocompromised patient, which presented atypically and which resulted in the patient's death.
Hernandez
Josephine M
JM
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Coyle
Francis P
FP
Wright
Cameron D
CD
Ballantyne
Jane C
JC
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015360:Analgesia, Epidural / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000767:Anesthesia, Epidural / Q000009:adverse effects*; D020802:Epidural Abscess / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*