گزارش مورد: فلج دايم به دنبال بي حسي داخل نخاعي

Case Report: Parapelgia after spinal anesthesia

anesthesia is one of the most commonly used kind of anesthesia all over the world. Although rare, paraplegia can happen as a complicatioin following spinal anesthesia, specially when the patient has some underlying disease like a previously unrecognized spinal tumor. Our patient was a 47 year old male referred for osteosarcoma of the right knee (distal femur). The surgery was done under spinal anesthesia, after that the patient developed paraplegia. Neurologic examination was done and MRI revealed massive tumor metastasis to vertebral bodies that caused T11-T12 cord compression. The aim of this article is to describe one of the rare complications of spinal anesthesia and notify the importance of doing neurologic examination before and after each spinal anesthesia.