Psuedotumor cerebri presenting with ataxia and hyper-reflexia in a non-obese woman treated with sinus stenting

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Teleb, Mohamed S ^a,b   Rekate, Harold ^b   Chung, Steve ^b   Albuquerqu, Felipe C ^b  

^a Stanford Medicine Children s Health   (United States)

^b BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DIPLOPIA; DISCONJUGATE GAZE; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MANOMETRY; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NAUSEA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PAPILLEDEMA; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VENOUS SINUS STENTING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CRANIAL SINUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; PATHOLOGICAL REFLEX; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATAXIA; CRANIAL SINUSES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; STENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866770036     PISSN: 17598478     EISSN: 17598486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2011-010073     Document Type: Article

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