Acute paraplegia after myelography: decompensation of a herniatad thoracic disc

Br J Neurosurg. 2008 Oct;22(5):684-6. doi: 10.1080/02688690801911580.

Abstract

A 71-year-old patient presented with low back pain and slowly progressive weakness of both legs. Within a few hours after lumbar myelography, paraplegia below level L2 evolved. MR-imaging revealed a discogenic stenosis at level Th10/11. Immediate decompression by costo-transversectomy led to reversal of the neurological deficits.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Aged
  • Calcinosis / surgery
  • Decompression, Surgical / methods
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intervertebral Disc Displacement / complications
  • Intervertebral Disc Displacement / surgery*
  • Low Back Pain / etiology*
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / surgery*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Myelography / adverse effects
  • Paraplegia / etiology
  • Paraplegia / surgery*
  • Thoracic Vertebrae / surgery*
  • Treatment Outcome