Emergent image-guided treatment of a large CSF leak to reverse "in-extremis" signs of intracranial hypotension

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1627-1629

  Lasboo, A A ^a   Hurley, M C ^a   Walker, M T ^a   Surdell, D ^a   Song, J K ^a   Rosenow, J M ^a   Shaibani, Ali ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Radiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCIES; ENCEPHALOCELE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURONAVIGATION; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 54249132218     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1157     Document Type: Article

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