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BJA Advance Access published online on February 13, 2006
British Journal of Anaesthesia, doi:10.1093/bja/ael027
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2006. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Accepted January 17, 2006

Case Report

Subcutaneous effusion resulting from an epidural catheter fragment

Y. Demiraran 1 *, I. Yucel 2, and B. Erdogmus 3

1 Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Abant Izzet Baysal, Duzce Faculty of Medicine, Duzce, Turkey
2 Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Abant Izzet Baysal, Duzce Faculty of Medicine, Duzce, Turkey
3 Department of Radiology, University of Abant Izzet Baysal, Duzce Faculty of Medicine, Duzce, Turkey

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Y. Demiraran, E-mail: demiryvz{at}yahoo.com


  Abstract

The breakage of an epidural catheter within a patient is uncommon, but troublesome, complication of epidural block, and its cause is rarely discovered. In this case report, our aim was to present an effusion between s.c. tissue and fascia in the lumbar region because of a broken fragment of epidural catheter which was unnoticed during its removal.

Keywords: anaesthetic techniques, epidural; complications, catheter breakage; equipment, catheter.
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