title: Simultaneous cranial and spinal subdural hematoma.
abstract: A 59-year-old male presented with spinal subdural hematoma (SDH) with concomitant cranial chronic SDH manifesting as mild paraparesis and numbness in both lower extremities. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging showed simultaneous occurrence of cranial and spinal SDHs. The patient was treated conservatively because of poor medical condition and mild neurological symptoms, and recovered well within 1 month. Serial follow-up MR imaging revealed spontaneous resolution of both lesions, with signal intensity changes suggesting the degenerative process of subacute hematoma. The spinal hematoma may have migrated from the cranial lesion. Spinal SDH is a potential sequela of chronic SDH in the cranium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima, Japan. satoya@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: Kaoru
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kurisu
authors.forename: Kazunori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Arita
authors.forename: Masaaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: Itaru
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tani
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Araki
mesh_terms: D046648:Hematoma, Subdural, Intracranial / Q000150:complications*; D046649:Hematoma, Subdural, Spinal / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged