Persistent intracranial hypertension caused by superior sagittal sinus stenosis following depressed skull fracture: Case report and review of the literature

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 849-852

  Yokota, Hiroshi ^a,b   Eguchi, Takahiko ^a   Nobayashi, Misato ^a   Nishioka, Toshikazu ^a   Nishimura, Fumihiko ^a   Nikaido, Yuji ^a  

^a MINAMI OSAKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depressed skull fracture; Intracranial hypertension; Superior sagittal sinus stenosis; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GLYCEROL;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS VENOSUS; SKULL FRACTURE; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CRANIAL SINUSES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL; SKULL FRACTURE, DEPRESSED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33646478264     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2006.104.5.849     Document Type: Article

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