Headache arising from idiopathic changes in CSF pressure

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 655-668

  Ducros, Anne ^a   Biousse, Valérie ^b  

^a MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; TOPIRAMATE;

ANXIETY; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BODY MASS; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR VENOUS STENTING; FENESTRATION; HEADACHE; HEARING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IDIOPATHIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LIFE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBESITY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE SHEATH FENESTRATION; PAPILLEDEMA; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SODIUM RESTRICTION; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VISION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPLICATION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION;

EID: 84929321274     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: 14744465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(15)00015-0     Document Type: Review

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