Successful treatment of spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak headache with fluoroscopically guided epidural blood patch: A report of four cases

Pain Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 373-378

  Hayek, Salim Michel ^a   Fattouh, Maher ^a   Dews, Teresa ^a   Kapural, Leonardo ^a   Malak, Osama ^a   Mekhail, Nagy ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; KETOROLAC; MAGNESIUM; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; TOPIRAMATE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; NAUSEA; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN CLINIC; PATIENT REFERRAL; REHYDRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; ANAMNESIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347917132     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2003.03037.x     Document Type: Article

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