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Minim Invasive Neurosurg 1987; 30(4): 123-124
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1054077
Fallberichte - Case reports

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Spinal compression syndromes caused by intradural foreign body

Spinale Kompressionssyndrome durch intraduralen FremdkörperW. E. Braunsdorf, I. D. Ellams
  • Department of Neurosurgery, University of Giessen (Head: Prof. Dr. Dr. H. W. Piat)
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18 March 2008 (online)

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Summary

Two patients underwent continuous lumbar cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage during craniotomy. In one patient a pituitary adenoma was extirpated through a transnasal trans-sphenoidal approach and the other had a frontal craniotomy for extirpation of an a-v malformation. In these two cases the catheters for the CSF drainage disappeared partly and were forgotten within the spinal canal. These patients were later admitted for spinal cord compression syndromes.

Zusammenfassung

Fallberichte von zwei Patienten, bei denen präoperativ eine lumbale Liquordauerdrainage angelegt wurde. Im ersten Fall handelt es sich um ein transnasal-trans-sphenoidal extirpiertes Hypophysenadenom, im zweiten Fall um ein AV-Angiom. Bei beiden Patienten kam es später zu spinalen Kompressionssyndromen, da abgerissene Teile des Katheters in situ verblieben waren.

Key-Words

CSF drainage - Spinal cord compression syndromes - Foreign body

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