Cortical blindness after contrast-enhanced CT: Complication in a patient with diabetes insipidus

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1114-1116

  Mentzel, Hans Joachim ^a,b   Blume, Jörg ^a   Malich, Ansgar ^a   Fitzek, Clemens ^a   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^a   Kaiser, Werner A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Inst Diagn/Interventional Radiol   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPROMIDE; PROPIVERINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ARACHNOID CYSTS; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IOHEXOL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0037600572     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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