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Case Report: Hemorrhage Into An Occult Spinal Ependymoma After Epidural Anesthesia, Peter G. Campbell Md, Ashwini D. Sharan Md, James S. Harrop Md, Alex R. Vaccaro Md, John K. Ratliff Md

JHN Journal

Epidural anesthesia is a procedure which is well tolerated and has a low incidence of adverse events. In performing caesarean sections, regional anesthesia (spinal or epidural) is the preferred modality for anesthetic delivery. Although rare with continuous epidural anesthesia, epidural hematomas have been reported to occur with an incidence between 1:150,000 and 1:190,00010. An underlying bleeding diathesis has been implicated as a causative factor. We present the sixth reported case of hemorrhage into an occult intradural neoplasm after spinal or epidural anesthesia. Similar lesions have not been reported in the recent spine literature.