Possible causes of seizure after spine surgery

Seizure after laminectomy for spinal procedure is very rare and has not been reported after lipomyelomeningocele surgery beforehand. Here, two cases of seizure following laminectomy for lipomyelomeningocele are reported. The exact etiology of the event is unknown but anesthetic material, pneumocepha...

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Autores principales: Habibi, Zohreh, Nejat, Farideh, El Khashab, Mostafa
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21042506
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.66661
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description Seizure after laminectomy for spinal procedure is very rare and has not been reported after lipomyelomeningocele surgery beforehand. Here, two cases of seizure following laminectomy for lipomyelomeningocele are reported. The exact etiology of the event is unknown but anesthetic material, pneumocephalus, intracranial hypotension subsequent to cerebrospinal fluid leakage after spinal procedures, spinal-induced seizure and the potential toxic effect of fat molecules could be considered.
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spelling pubmed-29648092010-11-01 Possible causes of seizure after spine surgery Habibi, Zohreh Nejat, Farideh El Khashab, Mostafa J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Seizure after laminectomy for spinal procedure is very rare and has not been reported after lipomyelomeningocele surgery beforehand. Here, two cases of seizure following laminectomy for lipomyelomeningocele are reported. The exact etiology of the event is unknown but anesthetic material, pneumocephalus, intracranial hypotension subsequent to cerebrospinal fluid leakage after spinal procedures, spinal-induced seizure and the potential toxic effect of fat molecules could be considered. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2964809/ /pubmed/21042506 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.66661 Text en © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964809/
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