Postsurgical intracranial hypotension: Diagnostic and prognostic imaging findings

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 100-105

  Hadizadeh, D R ^a   Kovacs A ^a   Tschampa, H ^a   Kristof, R ^a   Schramm, J ^a   Urbach, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLIA LESION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SURGERY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALEN VEIN; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAROTID ENLARGEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; SPINE SURGERY; SUCTION DRAINAGE; THALAMUS LESION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 75749100286     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1749     Document Type: Article

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