• Anaesthesia · Mar 1994

    Case Reports

    Cerebrospinal fluid cutaneous fistula. An unusual complication of epidural anaesthesia.

    • J Howes and R Lenz.
    • Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, Cornwall.
    • Anaesthesia. 1994 Mar 1; 49 (3): 221-2.

    AbstractWe describe two cases of cerebrospinal fluid-cutaneous fistula following epidural anaesthesia used for postoperative pain relief. In each case spinal headache occurred only after removal of the catheters and both patients were treated successfully with autologous blood patches.

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