Delayed intracranial hypertension and cerebellar tonsillar necrosis associated with a depressed occipital skull fracture compressing the superior sagittal sinus. Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 103 PEDIATRICS, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2005, Pages 458-461

  Vender, John R ^a   Bierbrauer, Karin ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Intracranial hypertension; Magnetic resonance venography; Pediatric neurosurgery; Pseudotumor cerebri; Skull fracture; Superior sagittal sinus; Tonsillar herniation

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART RATE; HERNIA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL FRACTURE; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; TONSIL DISEASE; CEREBELLUM; CRANIAL SINUS; INJURY; NECROSIS; OCCIPITAL BONE; PATHOLOGY; TIME;

CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CRANIAL SINUSES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; NECROSIS; OCCIPITAL BONE; SKULL FRACTURE, DEPRESSED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 32944460037     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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