Fluoroscopically guided epidural blood patch with subsequent spinal CT scans in the treatment of spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid hypovolemia: Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1731-1735

  Watanabe, Keisuke ^a   Hashizume, Keiji ^a   Kawaguchi, Masahiko ^a   Fujiwara, Aki ^a   Sasaoka, Noriyuki ^a   Furuya, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography myelography; Epidural blood patch; Fluoroscopic guidance; Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid hypovolemia

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BLOOD PATCH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTURAL HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SPONTANEOUS CEREBROSPINAL FLUID HYPOVOLEMIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYPOVOLEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79957977725     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.1.JNS101326     Document Type: Article

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