Case report: spontaneous intracranial hypotension in association with the presence of a false localizing C1-C2 cerebrospinal fluid leak

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 539-543

  Morgan, Jonathan T ^a   Scumpia, Alexander J ^b   Johnson, Alan A ^a   Schneider, Steven J ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural blood patch; Orthostatic headache; Spontaneous intracranial hypotension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CISTERNOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; RECUMBENCY; WEIGHT LIFTING;

BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBDURAL EFFUSION;

EID: 53949099836     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2007.05.037     Document Type: Article

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