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  • Title: [Case report: a 5-year-old girl with spinal, epidural empyema - an uncommon but successful therapy performed by anaesthetists in Malawi].
    Author: Pollach G, Gresser S.
    Journal: Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther; 2010 Apr; 45(4):238-41. PubMed ID: 20387179.
    Abstract:
    A five-year-old girl suffering from sepsis and acute paraplegia was diagnosed with spinal epidural empyema due to a superinfected tuberculous osteomyelitis of a vertebra. In the absence of a neurosurgeon the anaesthetists opted for an epidural procedure. To this effect they aspirated, drained and irrigated the epidural space on several levels via epidural Tuohy cannulas - followed by an antibiotic instillation.
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