how to cite this article: abbad a, afzal k, mujeeb aa, shahab t, khalid m. spontaneous ventral spinal epidural hematoma in an infant: an unusual presentation. iran j child neurol. 2013  spring;7(2):47-50. abstract spontaneous ventral spinal epidural hematomas are extremely rare in children and clinically recognized by the appearance of acute asymmetric focal motor and sensory involvement. in in...

Spinal epidural hematoma, a potentially devastating problem, requires rapid diagnosis and urgent surgical intervention. Two types of spinal epidural hematoma have been described in the literature: traumatic and nontraumatic.1 Traumatic spinal epidural hematoma has been attributed to spine surgery,2 epidural catheter placement,3 lumbar puncture,4 and chiropractic manipulation.5 Nontraumatic, or ...

Background: Brown-Sequard syndrome (BSS) is a rare neurological condition resulting from a hemisection injury to or unilateral compression on the spinal cord. The most common causes of BSS that are amenable to be treated surgically can be divided into traumatic and non-traumatic injuries. Traumatic injuries are often reported as the main cause of BSS. However, non-traumatic injuries of the spin...

Spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma is an uncommon cause of acute spinal cord compression. It usually occurs with sudden cervical or interscapular pain. Typically, increasing compression of the spinal cord leads to paralysis within minutes to hours after the onset of symptoms. The authors report a case of spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma with sudden onset of left side complete hemipleg...

UNLABELLED To describe the mechanism that causes spinal epidural hematoma with neurologic deficit and review the literature. We report a case of a 62-year-old man with post-traumatic epidural hematoma in the cervicothoracic spine, who developed progressive neurological deficit which eventually resulted in complete paralysis below T1. During surgical evacuation significant spine compression due ...

The purpose of this study was to report a case with post-traumatic spinal epidural hematomas with abnormal neurologic findings, which is uncommon. A 40-year-old man presented at our clinic after a blunt trauma caused by a traffic accident in which he was a pedestrian. After admission, abnormal neurologic symptoms developed including loss of sensation and motor function in his left lower extremi...

Spinal epidural haemorrhage may present as back pain associated with radicular symptoms and can be a catastrophic clinical scenario with progression to paraplegia or even sudden death. Being a rare entity, it needs a high index ofclinical suspicion to diagnose it. Fractures have been documented as a cause of hematorrachis but such hematomas only extend to one or two vertebral segments. Large ep...

introduction spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (sseh) is an uncommon but potentially fatal condition. the increased bleeding tendency associated with anticoagulant medications has been proven to increase the risk of sseh. the symptoms of sseh usually begin with sudden severe neck or back pain and are followed by neurological deficits. however, some cases present with only axial pain or with ...

reversible encephalopathy syndrome: prognostic utility of quantitative diffusion-weighted MR images. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2002; 23: 1038–1048. 4. Hsieh CT, Chiang YH, Tang CT, Sun JM, Ju DT. Delayed traumatic thoracic spinal epidural hematoma: a case report and literature review. Am J Emerg Med 2007; 25: 69–71. 5. Chang FC, Lirng JF, Luo CB et al. Evaluation of clinical and MR findings for the...

We present a case of a reversible spinal venous hypertensive myelopathy that occurred following a traumatic mediastinal hematoma. The mediastinal hematoma caused compression of the brachiocephalic vein, resulting in elevation of the venous pressures that ultimately resulted in dilation of the epidural venous plexus and spinal cord edema. The secondary neurologic deficits were the culmination of...