Spontaneous intracranial hypotension with severe headache and typical neuroradiological findings: Report of two cases

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 437-442

  Kinoshita, Yasunobu ^a   Terada, Tomoaki ^a   Nakai, Kunio ^a   Itakura, Toru ^a   Terashita, Toshio ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Terashita Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

headache; intracranial hypotension; intracranial pressure; meninges; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MENINX; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030965251     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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