Spontaneous spinal cerebrospinal fluid leak as a cause of coma after craniotomy for clipping of an unruptured intracranial aneurysm: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 521-524

  Schievink, Wouter I ^a,b   Palestrant, David ^a,b   Maya, M Marcel ^b   Rappard, George ^c  

^a Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Valley Neuroscience Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysm; Intracranial hypotension; Spinal fluid leak

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CRANIOTOMY; DEFIBRILLATOR; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEADACHE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEMIPARESIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS DISEQUILIBRIUM SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LAMINECTOMY; LIQUORRHEA; MYELOGRAPHY; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SYNDROME; WHITE MATTER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADULT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMA; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY, AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 63849324305     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.9.JNS08670     Document Type: Article

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