Case report
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Year :2021
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Month :
October
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Volume :
10
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Issue :
4
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Page :
RC04 - RC05
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Post Injection Sciatic Neuritis: A Case Report
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Venkatesh Manchikanti
, Niharika Prasad
, KLN Sindhuj
, Rajesh Botchu
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Narayana Medical College and Hospital, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India.
2. Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Dr. DY Patil Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Pune, Maharastra, India.
3. Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Narayana Medical College and Hospital, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India.
4. Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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Correspondence Address :
Venkatesh Manchikanti
, Niharika Prasad
, KLN Sindhuj
, Rajesh Botchu,
Dr. Venkatesh Manchikanti,
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiolgy, Narayana Medical College and Hospital, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India.
E-mail: drvenki143@gmail.com
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: For administration of certain drugs, intramuscular injections are used in children. The dorsogluteal area between the iliac crest and the greater trochanter is the most suitable site for intramuscular injection. Due to the poor co-operation of children/wrong technique/lack of trained personnel, there may be a risk of damage to sciatic nerve. A four-year-old boy presented with four day history of left foot drop. He had history of fever for which he consulted a local untrained medical practitioner and received an intramuscular injection at left gluteal region. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of pelvis and proximal thigh was performed and showed thickened and increased T2W signal of left sciatic nerve with perineural T2W hyperintensities suggestive of Sciatic Neuritis. Sciatic nerve injury can be potentially devastating, resulting in foot drop due to loss of dorsiflexion of the foot. The most common presentation is a paralytic foot drop that is caused due to involvement of the peroneal division of the sciatic nerve. Imaging of the sciatic nerve by MRI helps in early diagnosis and can assess the extent of involvement.
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Keywords :
Iatrogenic neuritis, Intramuscular injection, Left foot drop
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DOI and Others :
10.7860/IJARS/2021/49498:2694
Date of Submission: Mar 18, 2021
Date of Peer Review: Jun 12, 2021
Date of Acceptance: Jun 19, 2021
Date of Publishing: Oct 01, 2021
AUTHOR DECLARATION:
• Financial or Other Competing Interests: None
• Was informed consent obtained from the subjects involved in the study? Yes
• For any images presented appropriate consent has been obtained from the subjects. Yes (from patient’s attendant)
PLAGIARISM CHECKING METHODS:
• Plagiarism X-checker: Mar 18, 2021
• Manual Googling: Jun
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