A Case Of Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Hematoma After Leg Press Machine

Joseph R Kilianski III, Vamsi Reddy BS^*, John Tuttle and Samuel Macomson

Department of Neurological Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA

*Corresponding Author: Vamsi Reddy BS
Department of Neurological Surgery
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta Health
1120 15th, St. Augusta, GA 30912, USA
E-mail: vareddy@augusta.edu

Received: October 30, 2019 Accepted: November 21, 2019 Published: November 26, 2019

Citation: Kilianski JR, Vamsi Reddy BS, Tuttle J, Macomson S (2019) A Case of Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Hematoma after Leg Press Machine. J Spine Neurosurg 8:5.

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