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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 223-226 |
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Multiple hemorrhages in brain after spine surgery supra- and infra-tentorial components together
Baran Yilmaz1, Semra Isik2, Murat Sakir Eksi3, Emel Ece Özcan Eksi3, Akin Akakin1, Zafer Orkun Toktas1, Deniz Konya1
1 Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
2 Department of Neurosurgery, Hakkari State Hospital, Hakkari, Turkey
3 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Spine Center, University of California at San Francisco, CA, USA
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Murat Sakir Eksi
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Avenue, MU 320 West, San Francisco, CA 94143-0728
USA
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DOI: 10.4103/0974-8237.167890
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Remote cerebellar hemorrhage after cranial and spinal surgeries is a well-documented entity, so far concomitant supra- and infra-tentorial hemorrhage after spine surgery has rarely been reported in the literature. A 57-year-old woman presented with intractable low back pain and severely impaired mobility. One year ago, she underwent lumbar laminectomy and fusion with posterior spinal instrumentation between L2 and S1. She developed adjacent segment disease at the upper level of the instrumented vertebra. She had a revision surgery and underwent posterior laminectomy and fusion with bilateral transpedicular instrumentation between T10 and S1. She had severe headache, somnolence, and left hemiparesia 48 h after the surgery. Her emergent head computed tomography depicted intra-parenchymal hemorrhage in the right parietal lobe accompanying with subarachnoid hemorrhage, bilateral symmetrical cerebellar hemorrhages and pneumocephalus. She was treated nonsurgically and she got better despite some residual deficits. Symptoms including constant headache, nausea, vomiting, impaired consciousness, new onset seizure, and focal neurological deficit after spine surgeries should raise suspicion for intracranial intra-parenchymal hemorrhage. |
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