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Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Hemorrhage With Shoulder And Neck Pain As Initial Presentation: A Casereport, Yu-Min Kuo, Wai-Keung Lee, Cheng-Chih Liao, Li-Rong Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Spontaneous spinal epidural hemorrhage is a very rare disease, with an annual incidence estimated at one per million. Emergency surgery is indicated for a good prognosis, without which the death rate would be higher. Although the initial symptoms of cervical, thoracic, and back pain make it difficult to differentiate spontaneous spinal epidural hemorrhage from other common disease with similar symptoms, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a highly sensitive diagnostic method.We report the case of a 22-year-old male patient who initially complained of pain over the left shoulder and left cervical area. After nine days, numbness was noted in his left …