Mount Fuji sign following surgical drainage of spinal epidural abscess.
A 56-year-old male was admitted to the emergency department with complaints of fever, shortness of breath. The patient’s medical history included laryngectomy due to laryngeal cancer. He was found to have an anterior epidural abscess at C7–C8 and underwent surgical drainage. Four days later, he developed marked weakness of both legs. He deteriorated and neeeded intubation and ventilation due to progressive decrease in his level of consciousness. Computer tomography (CT) of the brain demonstrated an extensive pneumocephalus causing a mass …