Advances in evaluation and management of pediatric idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 391-397

  Wolf, Alvit ^a   Hutcheson, Kelly A ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid diversion; Idiopathic intracranial hypertension; Optic nerve sheath fenestration; Pseudotumor cerebri

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; TOPIRAMATE;

ACCURACY; ANOREXIA; APLASTIC ANEMIA; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED PERIMETRY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; DRUG EFFICACY; FATIGUE; FENESTRATION; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LUMBOPERITONEAL SHUNTING; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROIMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; OPTIC NERVE SHEATH FENESTRATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ORAL PARESTHESIA; PAPILLEDEMA; PEDIATRICS; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SIDE EFFECT; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNTING; VISUAL FIELD; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; FEMALE; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PERIMETRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ACETAZOLAMIDE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PERIMETRY; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 53049097885     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICU.0b013e328309f1b6     Document Type: Review

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