Inadvertent extra-epidural catheter placement in an infant.

Anesth Analg

*Department of Anesthesia, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; and Departments of †Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and ‡Radiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Published: February 2005

We report the inadvertent passage of an epidural catheter threaded from the caudal space out of a lumbar intervertebral foramen and into the lower thoracic paravertebral space in an infant. We identified the errant catheter by radiography and removed it without sequelae.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1213/01.ANE.0000143562.88730.0CDOI Listing

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