Abstract
Epidural analgesia failure because of misplaced epidural catheter rate is as high as 8% even in expert hands. Complications related to epidural catheter placement range from non fatal to fatal complications .We report an uncommon complication of thoracic epidural analgesia i.e. accidental pleural puncture by an thoracic epidural catheter in a patient with a carcinoma of the lower third of esophagus undergoing trans thoracic resection and gastric pull-through .
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