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Continuous lumbar epidural anesthesia was successfully accomplished for cesarean section in a patient with severe kyphoscoliosis, marking a novel use in this disease severity.
Continuous lumbar epidural anesthesia can be successfully used for cesarean section in patients with severe kyphoscoliosis.
May support anesthetic options in severe kyphoscoliosis; leaves open need for prospective data before wider adoption.
ANESTHETIC management for cesarean section in a patient with severe kyphoscoliosis was successfully accomplished using a continuous lumbar epidural technic. A review of the literature has failed to reveal a prior report of this form of anesthesia for cesarean section in a patient with disease of this severity.
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Carlson et al. (1978) studied this question. Continuous lumbar epidural anesthesia was successfully accomplished for cesarean section in a patient with severe kyphoscoliosis, marking a novel use in this disease severity.
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