Intracranial hypotension syndrome: Neuroimaging in five spontaneous cases and etiopathogenetic correlations

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-39

  Ferrante, Enrico ^a   Riva, Maurizio ^a   Gatti, Antonella ^a   Brioschi, Andrea Mauro ^a   Guccione, Angelo ^a   Colombo, Nadia ^a   Vanini, Marco ^a   Veronese, Silvio ^a  

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computerized tomography scan; Magnetic resonance imaging; Meningeal enhancement; Spontaneous intracranial hypotension

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; RADIOISOTOPE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CERVICAL SPINE; CISTERNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MENINX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031806423     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(97)00107-8     Document Type: Article

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