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2020 May 13


BMC Neurol


20


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Intrathecal blood injection: a case report of a rare complication of an epidural blood patch.

Authors

Seemiller J, Challagundla S, Taylor T, Zand R
BMC Neurol. 2020 May 13; 20(1):187.
PMID: 32404065.

Abstract

Intrathecal injection is a rare complication of spinal anesthesia and an underreported complication of epidural blood patches. Although there are other reported cases of intrathecal blood injection, these cases lack confirmatory imaging and others report injection of mixed blood with other agents.