Clinical resolution of severely symptomatic pseudotumor cerebri after gastric bypass in an adolescent

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 198-200

  Chandra, Venita ^a   Dutta, Sanjeev ^a   Albanese, Craig T ^a   Shepard, Elizabeth ^a   Farrales Nguyen, Susan ^a   Morton, John ^a  

^a LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Bariatric surgery; Gastric bypass; Obesity; Pseudotumor cerebri

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL REFLUX; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MORBID OBESITY; PAPILLEDEMA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STOMACH BYPASS; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; OBESITY, MORBID; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33947389284     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2006.11.015     Document Type: Article

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