Postdural puncture headache: An imaging-guided management protocol

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1809-1812

  Somri, Mostafa ^a,b   Teszler, Christian B ^a   Vaida, Sonia J ^a   Yanovski, Boris ^a   Gaitini, Diana ^a   Tome, Riad ^a   Fradis, Milo ^a   Gaitini, Luis A ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PARACETAMOL; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; STEROID;

ADULT; AIR; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABOR; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038024159     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000065907.85109.B0     Document Type: Article

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