Lack of increase in intracranial pressure after epidural blood patch in spinal cerebrospinal fluid leak

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 444-449

  Fichtner, Jens ^a   Fung, Christian ^a   Z'Graggen, Werner ^a   Raabe, Andreas ^a   Beck, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid leakage; Epidural blood patch; Intracranial pressure; Spontaneous intracranial hypotension

Indexed keywords

OXCARBAZEPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PATCH; BODY POSITION; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; EPILEPTIC STATE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING DEVICE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSEVERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETURN TO WORK; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873035825     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-012-9702-4     Document Type: Article

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