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Delayed Retroperitoneal Hemorrhage due to Lumbar Artery Pseudoaneurysm after Lumbar Posterolateral Fusion

  • Oh, Young Min (Department of Neurosurgery, Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Chonbuk National University Biomedical Research Institute of Chonbuk National University Hospital) ;
  • Choi, Ha Young (Department of Neurosurgery, Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Chonbuk National University Biomedical Research Institute of Chonbuk National University Hospital) ;
  • Eun, Jong Pil (Department of Neurosurgery, Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Chonbuk National University Biomedical Research Institute of Chonbuk National University Hospital)
  • Received : 2013.07.04
  • Accepted : 2013.10.10
  • Published : 2013.10.28
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Abstract

A 55-year-old female patient presented with lower back pain and neurogenic intermittent claudication and underwent L3-L4 posterolateral fusion. To prepare the bone fusion bed, the transverse process of L3 and L4 was decorticated with a drill. On the 9th post-operative day, the patient complained of a sudden onset of severe abdominal pain and distension. Abdominal computed tomography revealed retroperitoneal hematoma in the right psoas muscle and iatrogenic right L3 transverse process fracture. Lumbar spinal angiography showed the delayed hematoma due to rupture of the 2nd lumbar artery pseudoaneurysm and coil embolization was done at the ruptured lumbar artery pseudoaneusyrm. Since then, the patient's postoperative progress proceeded normally with recovery of the hemodynamic parameters.

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