In this study, an unusual case of intracranial hemorrhage is presented. It is spontaneous epidural hemorrhage, the complication of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. In this case, a 29-year-old female presented with vomiting and continuous headache and computed tomography revealed the right frontal parietal and temporal epidural hematoma. The patient had been diagnosed SLE one year ago. Together, th...

Study Design Case report. Objectives To describe a case of delayed-onset spinal hematoma following the breakage of a spinal epidural catheter. Methods The authors describe the clinical case review. Results A 64-year-old woman had undergone epidural anesthesia 18 years before she was referred to our hospital because of lower-back pain and lower neurologic deficit with leg pain. The clinical exam...

Background and Objective. Although minimally invasive surgical treatment of acute epidural hematoma attracts increasing attention, no generalized indications for the surgery have been adopted. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of minimally invasive surgery in acute epidural hematoma with various hematoma volumes. Methods. Minimally invasive puncture and aspiration surgery were performed ...

Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (SSEH) is rare in children, especially in infants, in whom only 12 cases have been reported. Because of the nonspecificity of presenting symptoms in children, the diagnosis may be delayed. We report herein a case of SSEH in a 20-month-old girl who initially presented with neck pain, and developed lower extremity motor weakness and symptoms of neurogenic blad...

Although prompt evacuation of the hematoma is generally the first treatment option for symptomatic spinal epidural hematoma (SHE), rapid and spontaneous resolution of SEH in clinical and radiological findings is rarely observed. Here, we describe a case of posttraumatic cervical SEH that resolved within 19 hours, as observed by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with...

Santa Casa Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medical Science of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil: Resident of Neurosurgery; Professor of Neurosurgery; Neurologist at Biocor Hospital; Neurosurgeon. Spontaneous epidural hematoma (SEH) is a rare condition, which, in most cases, requires surgical treatment due to neurological worsening that occurs within the first 12 hours aft...

Hemiparesis develops in response to a wide range of neurological disorders, such as stroke, neoplasms and several inflammatory processes. Occasionally, it may also occur due to a lesion located in the high cervical spinal cord. In this concise review, we describe the features of spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma, which should be included in the large list of stroke mimics. Various concerns r...

We present a rare case of delayed onset of epidural hematoma after lumbar surgery whose only presenting symptom was vesicorectal disturbance. A 68-year-old man with degenerative spinal stenosis underwent lumbar decompression and instrumented posterolateral spine fusion. The day after his discharge following an unremarkable postoperative course, he presented to the emergency room complaining of ...

Spontaneously occurring spinal epidural hematoma (SEH) is a relatively rare disease. It is frequently observed in cervicothoracic and thoracolumbar regions. They require emergency surgical intervention as they may lead to serious and permanent neurological damage. On the other hand, rare cases with mild neurological findings, which resolve without surgical intervention have also been reported i...