부산대학교 도서관

Lumbar puncture is a routine procedure frequently done in the intensive care unit, operating room, and medical wards for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes such as cancer, infections, and autoimmune diseases workups. We encountered a case of active bleeding from left L2 and L4 lumbar arteries after a lumbar puncture that leads to hemorrhagic shock. A lumbar puncture (LP) was planned to be done as part of the diagnostic workup to rule out infectious and cancerous causes. Because of the patients high BMI and the difficulty of the initial bedside LP, the neurology team was not comfortable with re-attempting the LP. [Extracted from the article]