Spontaneous intracranial hypotension: Dilemmas in diagnosis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-14

  Rahman, Maryam ^a   Bidari, Sharatchandra S ^a   Quisling, Ron G ^a   Friedman, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coma; Epidural blood patch; Spontaneous intracranial hypotension

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; CAFFEINE; FIBRIN GLUE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID;

BACKACHE; BED REST; BLOOD PATCH; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN DISEASE; COMA; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVULSION; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; CRANIECTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; FOLLOW UP; GALACTORRHEA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOACUSIS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LIQUORRHEA; MARFAN SYNDROME; MENINGITIS; NAUSEA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATING ROOM; PARKINSONISM; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHONOPHOBIA; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RADICULOPATHY; REHYDRATION; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; STUPOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TARLOV CYST; TINNITUS; VERTIGO; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VOMITING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PUBMED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79958814539     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182134399     Document Type: Review

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