Acute onset headache complicating labor epidural caused by intrapartum pneumocephalus

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 108, Issue 3 II, 2006, Pages 795-798

  Smarkusky, Loren ^a   DeCarvalho, Helena ^a   Bermudez, Ady ^a   González Quintero, Víctor Hugo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CAFFEINE; MISOPROSTOL; OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LABOR; LABOR INDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; LABOR, INDUCED; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MALE; MEDLINE; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748115633     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000209185.54752.48     Document Type: Article

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