Pseudotumor cerebri: Etiological factors, presenting features and prognosis in the western part of Turkey

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 367-370

  Çelebisoy, Nese ^a   Secil Y ^a   Akyurekli O ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Headache; Pseudotumor cerebri; Pseudotumor syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BEHCET DISEASE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBESITY; PAPILLEDEMA; PERIMETRY; PROGNOSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLEDEMA; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TURKEY; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0036913189     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0404.2002.02027.x     Document Type: Article

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