Neonatal Epidural Lipomatosis: A Rare Case

A 7-day-old baby boy born by lower segment caesarean section as term appropriate for gestational age was admitted with the complaint of fever, lethargy, and refusal to feed. The baby was put on antibiotic treatment for sepsis and meningitis. On the 15th day of the treatment, he developed lower motor...

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Autores principales: Singh, Jaswir, Sodhi, Manpreet, Arora, Neha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6057188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30090154
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_14_18
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description A 7-day-old baby boy born by lower segment caesarean section as term appropriate for gestational age was admitted with the complaint of fever, lethargy, and refusal to feed. The baby was put on antibiotic treatment for sepsis and meningitis. On the 15th day of the treatment, he developed lower motor neuron paralysis of both lower limbs along with sensory deficit. He also had bladder and fecal incontinence. Magnetic resonance imaging of spine showed spinal epidural lipomatosis extending from T8 to L5 with maximum compression of theca at L3-L4 level.
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spelling pubmed-60571882018-08-08 Neonatal Epidural Lipomatosis: A Rare Case Singh, Jaswir Sodhi, Manpreet Arora, Neha J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report A 7-day-old baby boy born by lower segment caesarean section as term appropriate for gestational age was admitted with the complaint of fever, lethargy, and refusal to feed. The baby was put on antibiotic treatment for sepsis and meningitis. On the 15th day of the treatment, he developed lower motor neuron paralysis of both lower limbs along with sensory deficit. He also had bladder and fecal incontinence. Magnetic resonance imaging of spine showed spinal epidural lipomatosis extending from T8 to L5 with maximum compression of theca at L3-L4 level. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6057188/ /pubmed/30090154 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_14_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6057188/
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