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Neurological complaints after unsuccessful spinal anaesthesia as a manifestation of incipient syringomyelia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2006

R. Adler  and
G. Lenz
R. Adler
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Klinikum Ingolstadt, Krumenauer Strasse 25, 85049 Ingolstadt, Germany
G. Lenz
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Klinikum Ingolstadt, Krumenauer Strasse 25, 85049 Ingolstadt, Germany
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Abstract

The medical literature sometimes reports neurological complications after spinal or epidural anaesthesia. In a few cases, the onset of symptoms can be a sign of a pre-existing disease without a primary connection with regional anaesthesia. In the following case report, the patient complained of paraesthesias in both legs after a failed spinal anaesthesia, even though the needle had been placed intrathecally. Only neurological examination and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging revealed the presence of syringomyelia.

Keywords

neurological complicationsspinal anaesthesiasyringomyelia
Type
Case Report
Information
European Journal of Anaesthesiology , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 103 - 105
Copyright
1998 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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