Spinal anaesthesia and conus damage

Permanent neurological damage after spinal anaesthesia.

UNLABELLED The use of subarachnoid block for various surgeries is becoming common and it is without complications. There many complications of spinal anaesthesia but one of the devastating of such complications that can lead to permanent disability and psychological trauma for the anaesthetist is permanent neurological damage. METHOD This is a review article of various works on neurological d...

Primary spinal malignant melanoma of spinal cord and conus medullaris.

Primary malignant melanoma of the central nervous system is an extremely rare neoplasm and accounts for approximately 1% of all melanoma cases. The occurrence of this lesion in the spinal cord is even rarer.1-3 Magnetic resonance imaging features of melanoma are determinated by the degree of pigment melanin and the presence of acute or chronic hemorrhage and can be easily misdiagnosed with othe...

Spinal anaesthesia.

Spinal anaesthesia is normally performed by puncture of the dura and arachnoid mater in the lumbar region, and local anaesthetic is introduced directly into the eerebrospinal fluid (CSF) surrounding the nerve roots and spinal cord. The solution will spread longitudinally through the CSF and the drug will be taken up by the neuronal tissue. Whether an effective concentration results in a particu...

Spinal intramedullary cysticercosis of the conus medullaris.

Neurocysticercosis is the most common central nervous system (CNS) parasitic disease worldwide, but spinal cysticercal infection is relatively rare, especially in the United States. Because of increased immigration to the United States from endemic areas, the incidence of neurocysticercosis has risen, especially in California, Texas, Arizona, and other southwestern states, but not in Wisconsin....

Spinal Anaesthesia in Spinal Surgery