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Paraplegia After Preoperative Embolization of Spinal Metastases: A Case Report

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De Vries BS, Urlings TAJ and Arts MP

Objective: Metastases of the vertebral column can be hyper vascular and may result in severe blood loss during surgery. Preoperative embolization is a technique to reduce the perioperative blood loss. A rare complication of preoperative embolization of spinal metastases is ischemia of the spinal cord. In this case report we present the occurrence of spinal cord ischemia after preoperative embolization of spinal metastases.

Methods: Case report.

Results: A 66-year old man with short lasting back pain and thoracic radicular pain resented at our neurosurgery department. Neurological examination revealed slight weakness of the left iliopsoas muscle, Medical Research Council (MRC) grade 4 and pathological plantar reflexes. C... view more»

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