Spontaneous intracranial hypotension presenting without orthostatic headache complicated by acute subdural hematoma after drainage for chronic subdural hematoma

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 518-521

  Kuramae, Takumi ^a   Inamasu, Joji ^a   Nakagawa, Yu ^a   Nakatsukasa, Masashi ^a  

^a Imperial Foundation Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic subdural hematoma; Complication; Drainage; Orthostatic headache; Spontaneous intracranial hypotension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURR HOLE DRAINAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LAMINECTOMY; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTURAL HEADACHE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SPINE SURGERY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRAINAGE; HEADACHE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960807140     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.51.518     Document Type: Article

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