Sonographic Assessment of the Optic Nerve Sheath and Transorbital Monitoring of Treatment Effects in a Patient with Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: Case Report

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 237-239

  Bäuerle, Jochen ^a   Gizewski, Elke R ^a   Stockhausen, Kerstin von ^a   Rosengarten, Bernhard ^a   Berghoff, Martin ^a   Grams, Astrid E ^a   Kaps, Manfred ^a   Nedelmann, Max ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intracranial hypotension; Optic nerve sheath diameter; Optic nerve sonography

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PATCH; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIZZINESS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LIQUORRHEA; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE SHEATH DIAMETER; POSTURAL HEADACHE;

BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC NERVE; ORBIT; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876327053     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2011.00640.x     Document Type: Article

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