Symptoms and disease associations in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri): A case-control study

Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 239-244

  Giuseffi, Vincent ^a   Wall, Michael ^a   Siegel, Paul Z ^a   Rojas, Patricio B ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HEAD; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUND; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0025975718     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.41.2_part_1.239     Document Type: Article

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