title: Chronic pure radiculopathy in patient with organizing epidural hematoma around C8 nerve root.
abstract: Spontaneously occurring spinal epidural hematomas are uncommon clinical findings, and the chronic form is the rarest and its most frequent location is the lumbar spine. Pure radicular involvement is far less frequent than myelopathy. We report a case of progressive radiculopathy in a 52-year-old man with spontaneously occurring cervical epidural hematoma (SCEH). The patient had left hand weakness and numbness for 4 months. MRI scan showed small space-occupying lesion around left 8th cervical nerve root. After surgery we confirmed chronic organizing epidural hematoma. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second reported case in the worldwide literature of pure radiculopathy in a patient with chronic SCEH.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Spine Center, Bumin Hospital, 380-4, DeokCheon-1 Dong, Buk-Gu, Busan, 616-819, South Korea.
authors.forename: Sang-hyuk
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sang-ho
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Jeon
authors.forename: Jae-lim
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Hung-tae
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Chong
authors.forename: Dong-jun
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Moon-chan
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jong-pil
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Eun
mesh_terms: D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D046748:Hematoma, Epidural, Spinal / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011843:Radiculopathy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013126:Spinal Nerve Roots / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome