Paraplegia after Gastrectomy in a Patient with Cervical Disc Herniation: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Table 1

Reported cases of nontraumatic acute myelopathy due to cervical disc herniation.

Authors	Year	Country	Age/sex	After general anesthesia	level	Spinal stenosis	Operation	Recovery of motor function
Lourie et al. [1]	1973	USA	37/M	−	C6-C7	−	ASF	+
Kawaguchi et al. [18]	1991	USA	61/M	+	C6-C7	−	ASD	+
Ueyama et al. [3]	1999	Japan	61/F	−	C6-C7	+	ASF	+
Suzuki et al. [4]	2003	Japan	29/M	−	C6-C7	+	ASF	−
Chen et al. [5]	2005	Taiwan	54/M	+	C6-C7	−	ASF	−
Hirose and Akhrass [6]	2005	USA	65/M	+	C7-T1	−	ASF	−
Tsai et al. [7]	2006	Taiwan	32/F	−	C3-c4	−	ASF	+
Hwang et al. [8]	2008	Singapore	63/M	+	C5-C6, C6-C7	+	No operation	+
Liu et al. [9]	2010	China	75/M	−	C4-C5	+	ASF	−
Gorur et al. [19]	2010	Turkey	62/M	+	C5-C6	−	ASF	+
Kato et al. [10]	2010	Japan	48/M	−	C6-C7	−	ASF	+
Ikeda et al. [11]	2012	Japan	21/F	−	C3-C4	+	ASF	+
Ahmed et al. [12]	2013	Egypt	48/F	−	C5-C6	+	ASF	+
Present case	2013	China	73/M	+	C4-C5	+	ASF	−

M: male; F: female; ASF: anterior spine fusion; ASD: anterior spine decompression.