Resolution of syringohydromyelia with targeted CT-guided epidural blood patching: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 641-644

  Kranz, Peter G ^a   Viola, Ronald J ^a   Gray, Linda ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood patch; Intracranial hypotension; Syringohydromyelia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PATCH; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR TONSILLAR ECTOPIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ECTOPIC TISSUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LIMB PAIN; LIMB WEAKNESS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER PAIN; SHUNTING; SYRINGOMYELIA; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; SYRINGOMYELIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052371601     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.3.JNS102164     Document Type: Article

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