Adhesive arachnoiditis: a rare cause of postoperative urinary retention
Cheruba Jonathan,
Narayanasamy Senthil,
Lakshmanan Suja
et al.
Abstract:Postoperative urinary retention is a common consequence of pelvic surgeries. It is often related both to the nature of surgery and the medication used in the perioperative period. Adhesive arachnoiditis (AA) is a rare condition, which has various clinical presentations ranging from back pain to disabling neurological deficits. Numerous aetiologies for AA have been described in the literature, one such noted is spinal anaesthesia. We report a patient who presented with isolated bladder dysfunction in the form o… Show more
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