Treatment is generally with emergency surgery. The risk following epidural anaesthesia is difficult to quantify; estimates vary from 1 per 10,000 to 1 per 100,000 epidural anaesthetics.
Spinal epidural hematoma
Epidural abscess
Spinal disc herniation
Spinal fracture
Spinal tumor
Cervical spinal stenosis
Acute flaccid myelitis
Vertebral osteomyelitis