Successful management of a thoracic cerebrospinal fluid cutaneous fistula in a two year old child using a thoracic epidural blood patch

Andrew David Franklin; Stephen Robert Hays

doi:10.1016/j.jclinane.2012.11.012

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Successful management of a thoracic cerebrospinal fluid cutaneous fistula in a two year old child using a thoracic epidural blood patch

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Successful management of a thoracic cerebrospinal fluid cutaneous fistula in a two year old child using a thoracic epidural blood patch

Andrew David Franklin and Stephen Robert Hays

Journal of clinical anesthesia, Vol.25(4), pp.331-334

06/2013

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2012.11.012

PMID: 23810200

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Abstract

A case of persistent thoracic cerebrospinal fluid cutaneous fistula in a toddler following radiographically confirmed epidural catheter placement is reported. Treatment of the fistula with a thoracic epidural blood patch was successful.

Pediatrics

Fistula, cerebrospinal cutaneous

Anesthesia, neuraxial

Epidural blood patch

Epidural catheterization: complications

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Title: Subtitle: Successful management of a thoracic cerebrospinal fluid cutaneous fistula in a two year old child using a thoracic epidural blood patch
Creators: Andrew David Franklin
Stephen Robert Hays
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of clinical anesthesia, Vol.25(4), pp.331-334
Publisher: Elsevier Inc
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2012.11.012
PMID: 23810200
ISSN: 0952-8180
eISSN: 1873-4529
Language: English
Date published: 06/2013
Academic Unit: Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Anesthesia
Record Identifier: 9984006358202771

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