Erschienen in:
01.06.2014 | Case Report
Transient monoparesis due to acute cervical radiculopathy after lumbar spine surgery: a case report and review of literature
verfasst von:
Ahmed Ezzat Siam, Heinrich Boehm, Hesham El Saghir, Stephan Werle
Erschienen in:
European Orthopaedics and Traumatology
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Ausgabe 2/2014
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Excerpt
Monoparesis due to acute cervical radiculopathy as a complication of positioning under general anaesthesia has been very rarely reported. In the international literature, in PubMed database search up to March 2013, only two cases of postoperative upper limb monoparesis have been reported [
1,
2]. We report a case of acute transient cervical radiculopathy following a lumbar spine surgery despite optimal anaesthetic management. …