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Case Report

Spinal cord ischemia after endoscopic ultrasound guided celiac plexus neurolysis: case report and review of the literature

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Pages 1158-1161 | Received 26 Mar 2017, Accepted 24 May 2017, Published online: 18 Jun 2017
 

Abstract

Introduction: Endosonography guided celiac plexus neurolysis is efficacious in the management of severe pain due to advanced pancreatic cancer. Although endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided celiac neurolysis (CN) is mostly a safer procedure than the percutaneous posterior approach, severe complications such as paraplegia have been reported.

Case report: We describe a patient with advanced adenocarcinoma of the pancreas and severe pain who developed irreversible paraplegia after EUS guided CN.

Conclusions: Endosonography guided celiac plexus neurolysis also might be complicated with paraplegia as already observed with percutaneous approach. The underlying mechanism could not be explained clearly until now. We detected concomitant embolic occlusion of Adamkiewicz and anterior radicularis magna arteries in magnetic resonance angiography. So, this procedure must be considered only for malignancy patients.

Acknowledgements

We thank our patient and her family for letting us share our experience with our colleagues.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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