Benign intracranial hypertension

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1975, Pages 197-207

  Weisberg, Leon A ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DIURETIC AGENT; GLYCEROL; METYRAPONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID HORMONE;

BLINDNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DRUG THERAPY; EMPTY SELLA SYNDROME; ETIOLOGY; HEADACHE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROSURGERY; OBESITY; SEX; THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS; OBESITY; PAPILLEDEMA; PREDNISONE; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; RECURRENCE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SELLA TURCICA; SEX FACTORS; SPINAL PUNCTURE; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0016833918     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-197505000-00002     Document Type: Article

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