Seizure as a manifestation of intracranial hypotension in a shunted patient

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 165-167

  Agrawal, Deepak ^b   Durity, Felix A ^a  

^a Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Imaging; Intracranial hypotension; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pachymeningeal enhancement; Seizure; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CHILD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MENINX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACHYMENINGEAL ENHANCEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SHUNT VALVE REPLACEMENT; VALVE;

BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SEIZURES; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 33646112157     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091860     Document Type: Article

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