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The unexpected epidural: a case report

BACKGROUND: We report the peculiar case of a patient with a retained large epidural catheter fragment, incidentally found 12 years after its placement. Our primary aim is to emphasize how the breakage and retention of even exceptionally large portions of this device can go undetected. The patient ca...

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Autores principales: Pinciroli, Riccardo, Fumagalli, Roberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4455980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26041091
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-015-0062-4