Epidural Blood Patch Procedure in Patients with Lymphoma or Leukemia: Is There a Risk of Cancer Seeding?

Pain Med. 2021 May 21;22(5):1236-1237. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnaa285.

Authors

Natalie H Strand¹, Alaa Abd-Elsayed², Philip M Shumsky¹, John A Freeman¹, Melissa L Kukulski¹, Christopher S Wie¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pain Medicine, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
² Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

PMID: 32918480
DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnaa285

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Blood Patch, Epidural
Humans
Leukemia*
Lymphoma*
Post-Dural Puncture Headache* / therapy