Paraplegia Following Intercostal Nerve Neurolysis with Alcohol and Thoracic Epidural Injection in Lung Cancer Patient
The Korean Journal of Pain
; : 148-152, 2015.
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ABSTRACT
The goal of cancer treatment is generally pain reduction and function recovery. However, drug therapy does not treat pain adequately in approximately 43% of patients, and the latter may have to undergo a nerve block or neurolysis. In the case reported here, a 42-year-old female patient with lung cancer (adenocarcinoma) developed paraplegia after receiving T8-10 and 11th intercostal nerve neurolysis and T9-10 interlaminar epidural steroid injections. An MRI results revealed extensive swelling of the spinal cord between the T4 spinal cord and conus medullaris, and T5, 7-11, and L1 bone metastasis. Although steroid therapy was administered, the paraplegia did not improve.
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Main subject:
Paraplegia
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Spinal Cord
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Injections, Epidural
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Recovery of Function
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Drug Therapy
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Conus Snail
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Intercostal Nerves
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Lung Neoplasms
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Neoplasm Metastasis
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
The Korean Journal of Pain
Year:
2015
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Article