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What is a durotomy?

What is a durotomy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) Incursion of the dura, especially during spinal surgery
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Headaches are a common complaint after accidental durotomy during epidural injections and spinal surgery.
Incidental durotomy and pseudomeningocele formation occur with an incidence depending on the extent of surgery.
There is no standardized technique suggested for durotomy and expansile duraplasty till date.
They also reported no incidents of nerve root injury nor accidental durotomy.
A small dural and arachnoidal incision was made and a 2 to 3 mm segment of polyethylene tubing connected to a micropipette was inserted caudally through the durotomy.

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