Журнал позвоночника и нейрохирургии

A Case Of Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Hematoma After Leg Press Machine

Joseph R Kilianski, John Tuttle, Samuel Macomson

Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (SSEH) is a rare hemorrhagic spinal pathology involving spontaneous blood in the epidural space that can compress the spinal cord or spinal nerve roots. SSEH has an atraumatic etiology and are extremely rare with a reported incidence of 0.1 per 100,000 or 0.3 to 0.9% of all spinal epidural space-occupying lesions. Here we present the first reported case of a SSEH following incline leg press