A spontaneous bilateral subdural effusion in an 11-year-old boy with middle cranial fossa arachnoid cyst

No To Hattatsu

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 342-346

  Kumada, Tomohiro ^a   Mutoh, Kozo ^a   Sakaguchi, Masakazu ^a   Murata, Keiji ^a  

^a SHIMADA MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; FENESTRATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; PAPILLEDEMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; VOMITING;

ARACHNOID CYSTS; CHILD; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SUBDURAL EFFUSION;

EID: 0037592417     PISSN: 00290831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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