A unifying hypothesis for a patient with superficial siderosis, low-pressure headache, intraspinal cyst, back pain, and prominent vascularity

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-101

  Kumar, Neeraj ^a   Miller, Gary M ^a   Piepgras, David G ^a   Mokri, Bahram ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraspinal cyst; Low pressure headache; Superficial siderosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DURA MATER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDEROSIS; SPINAL CORD CYST; SUPERFICIAL SIDEROSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENSION HEADACHE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

BACK PAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DURA MATER; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEADACHE; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL DISEASES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954403363     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.10.JNS091125     Document Type: Article

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