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Percutaneous treatment of gas-containing epidural pseudocyst reported
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, May 8th, 2005
"Gas-containing epidural pseudocyst is a rare cause of lumbar radicular compression," radiologists in Tunisia noted.
H. Rajhi and colleagues at EPS Charles Nicolle in Tunis presented "the case of a 42-year-old woman presenting with right L5 radicular pain."
"CT showed vacuum phenomenon and a gas-containing epidural pseudocyst compressing the right L5 root," according to the report. "Resolution of radicular pain occurred following CT-guided aspiration and steroid injection."
"The patient remained asymptomatic at 1...
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