Case report of a cervical myelomalacia caused by a thoracolumbar intradural disc herniation leading to intracranial hypotension
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Spontaneous intracranial hypotension due to thoracic disc herniation. Case report.
Spontaneous intracranial hypotension is frequently idiopathic. The authors report on a patient presenting with symptomatic intracranial hypotension caused by a transdural calcified thoracic disc herniation. Cranial magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed classic signs of intracranial hypotension, and a combination of spinal MR and computerized tomography myelography confirmed a mid-thoracic tr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0340-5354,1432-1459
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-020-10247-1