Paraplegia due to spinal epidural haematoma

Epidural haematoma may form at any spinal level and no age is exempt. The rate of development of the signs and symptoms of spinal cord and radicular compression due to epidural haematoma varies from case to case. In some patients there are no warning symptoms, and the case presents straight away after a minor injury with a paraplegia of sudden onset and rapid development. In other patients there is a long retrospective history of inter-mittent minor attacks of pain in the neck or in the back accompanied by transient symptoms and signs of root compression with pain radiating into the limbs or around the sides of the trunk, the site of the pain in the back and of its accompanying symptoms of root compression depending upon th