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Case Reports

A Rare Complication of Esophageal Stent: Spinal Epidural Abscess

^a Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
^b Division of Neurologic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Accepted for publication February 24, 2009.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Lee, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, #7, Jhong-Shan South Rd, Taipei, 100, Taiwan (Email: yclee{at}ntuh.gov.tw).

The esophageal stent is used extensively for a malignant stricture, and many complications have been reported. We present a case of esophageal cancer with surgical esophageal stenting. Spinal epidural abscess occurred postoperatively, and we believe that the pathogenesis may be related to the esophageal stent.