My headache does not get better when I lie down: Spontaneous intracranial hypotension complicated by venous thrombosis

Headache

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 149-152

  Tan, Kevin ^a   Venketasubramanian, Narayanaswamy ^a   Hwang, Cheng Yang ^a   Lim, C C Tchoyoson ^a  

^a NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cerebral venous thrombosis; MRI; Spontaneous intracranial hypotension; Venography

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; PROTEIN C;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 37549014929     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2007.00980.x     Document Type: Article

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