Dogan S, Kocaeli H, Doygun M. Oxidised regenerated cellulose as a cause of paraplegia after thoracotomy: case report and review of the literature.
Spinal Cord 2005;
43:445-7. [PMID:
15897919 DOI:
10.1038/sj.sc.3101632]
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Abstract
STUDY DESIGN
Case report.
OBJECTIVE
To report an unusual case of paraplegia.
SETTING
University Hospital Bursa, Turkey.
CASE REPORT
A 22-year-old woman presented with paraplegia following a left-sided thoracotomy. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a dorsal epidural mass at the level of T6. The patient underwent an emergency T6/7 laminectomy and removal of a tuft of oxidised regenerated cellulose, which had migrated through the intervertebral foramen causing spinal cord compression.
CONCLUSION
In cases of neurological deficits after surgery at the posterolateral edge of a thoracotomy, the clinician should be aware of the above possibility. Urgent radiological diagnosis and decompressive laminectomy is the treatment of choice.
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