Venous Intravasation Of Iodized Oil During Myelography - Report Of A Case With Roentgenologic Evidence Of Contrast Medium In Iliac Veins And In Lungs

was made between Land SI, with the patient in the sitting position, in order to remove the contrast material; bloody spinal fluid, but no oil was obtained. At this stage, the patient had some bouts of dry cough and presented for a few minutes mild signs of circulatory collapse, with skin pallor, hypotension, etc. A roentgeno- gram of the lumbosacral segment (Fig. 2) showed the oil to have almost disappeared from the sac, while the sacroiliac veins were opacified. Two minutes later, a chest roentgenogram revealed the presence of thin opaque streaks in