ABSTRACT
The experience with sacral anesthesia in surgical treatment of soft tissues' benign and malignant neoplasms of the lower extremities was analyzed. Benign tumors were the indications for surgical treatment in 19 patients, malignant tumors - in 11 patients. Various methods of sacral anesthesia are described, indications for this type of anesthesia and obtained results are discussed. It is concluded that sacral anesthesia in surgical treatment of soft tissues neoplasms of the lower extremities provides adequate anesthesia even without other types of anesthetic protection.
Subject(s)
Anesthesia, Caudal/methods , Lower Extremity , Soft Tissue Neoplasms/surgery , HumansABSTRACT
A 41-year-old patient with the rigidity syndrome was observed. The disease was expressed in marked rigidity of the long muscles of the back forming a picture of persistent hyperlordosis which led to a considerable disablement of the patient. Another complaint was spasms of the femoral muscles. A four-year follow-up of the patient revealed periodically recurring ataxia, nystagmus, and dysarthria. The patient benefited by relanium (diazepam) administration. On the basis of the literature data and a clinical analysis of this case the authors review clinical, differential-diagnostic, pathogenetic and etiological aspects of the rigidity syndrome.
