Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (Pseudotumor Cerebri): Descriptive Epidemiology in Rochester, Minn, 1976 to 1990

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 78-80

  Radhakrishnan, Kurupath ^a   Kurland, Leonard T ^a   O'fallon, W Michael ^a   Ahlskog, J Eric ^a   Cross, Shelley A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; OBESITY; PAPILLEDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MINNESOTA; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0027399915     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1993.00540010072020     Document Type: Article

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