Neurological deterioration after spinal anaesthesia: a rare mode of presentation of spinal tumours

Authors

  • Toyin A. Oyemolade Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Federal Medical Center Owo, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0545-527X
  • Augustine A. Adeolu Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria Department of Neurological Surgery, University College Hospital Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
  • Olugbenga D. Akinwonmi Department of Anaesthesia, Federal Medical Center Owo, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria
  • Inwonoabasi N. Ekanem Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Federal Medical Center Owo, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/issn.2455-4510.IntJResOrthop20223457

Keywords:

Spine, Tumour, Neurological deterioration, Anaesthesia

Abstract

Spinal anaesthesia is a safe and widely performed mode of anaesthesia with low complication rate. It may however be complicated infrequently with neurological deterioration as a result of injury to nerve root and spinal cord or epidural haematoma. Rarely neurological deterioration may occur following spinal anaesthesia in the presence of spinal tumours. We presented a case of neurological deterioration following spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section in a patient with previously undiagnosed thoracic spinal tumour.

Author Biographies

Toyin A. Oyemolade, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Federal Medical Center Owo, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

Consultant Neurosurgeon

Department of Surgery

Augustine A. Adeolu, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria Department of Neurological Surgery, University College Hospital Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Consultan Neurosurgeon, Department of Surgery

Olugbenga D. Akinwonmi, Department of Anaesthesia, Federal Medical Center Owo, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

Consultant Anaesthetist,

Department of Anaesthesia

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Published

2022-12-28

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023): January-February 2023

Section

Case Reports