Radicular pain can be a symptom of elevated intracranial pressure

Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1093-1095

  Groves, Morris D ^a,b   McCutcheon, Ian E ^a   Ginsberg, Lawrence E ^a   Kyritsis, Athanassios P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; ISCHEMIA; LEPTOMENINX; METASTASIS; NERVE ROOT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; THEORY;

EID: 0033596832     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.52.5.1093     Document Type: Article

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