Spinal Cord Compression Caused by a Metastatic Bone Tumor in Buerger's Disease Patient.
10.4097/kjae.2000.38.2.379
- Author:
Dong Hee KIM
1
;
Jong Kwon PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheon An, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Analgesia: epidural;
Cancer;
metastatic bone tumor;
Disease: Buerger's disease
- MeSH:
Arteries;
Extremities;
Gangrene;
Humans;
Ischemia;
Lower Extremity;
Spinal Cord Compression*;
Spinal Cord*;
Thromboangiitis Obliterans*;
Upper Extremity;
Veins
- From:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
2000;38(2):379-382
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans) is an inflammatory, nonatherosclerotic, occlusive disease of small- and medium-sized arteries and veins that involves distal vessels of the extremities. Patients show symptoms related to ischemia of distal lower extremities and upper extremities (claudication, gangrene, rest pain, distal cyanosis). We report a case of progressive ascending motor weakness of the lower extremities in a Buerger's disease patient due to a metastatic bone tumor on the T3 level after lumbar epidural block and continuous cervical epidural block.
