Pseudotumor cerebri: disordered cerebrospinal fluid hydrodynamics with extra-axial CSF collections

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 212-215

  Najjar, Marwan W ^a,b   Azzam, Narmer I ^a   Khalifa, Maher A ^a  

^a Dr Erfan and Bagedo Hospitals ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Hygroma; Idiopathic intracranial hypertension; Pseudotumor cerebri

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MALE; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; RHEOLOGY; SUBDURAL EFFUSION;

EID: 23844509980     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086564     Document Type: Article

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