The study enrolled patients from January 2010 to December 2019, patients who developed PSEH after posterior thoracic surgery and underwent the hematoma evacuation. For each PSEH patients, 2 or 3 controls who did not develop the PSEH, underwent the same procedures of similar complexity at the same section of thoracic spine in the same period were collected. The preoperative and intraoperative factors, blood pressure related factors and radiographic parameters were collected to identify possible risk factors by comparing between two groups.
This is a retrospective, observational single-center study. The studies is to investigate the incidence of posterior epidural spinal hematoma(PSEH) and recognize the risk factors for it in a cohort of patients undergoing posterior thoracic surgery in isolation.