Challenges in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension
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Spontaneous intracranial hypotension: presentation, diagnosis, and treatment.
1327 December 2014 B ecause of cerebrospinal fluid (csF) leak, orthostatic headaches sometimes follow neuraxial blockade or diagnostic lumbar puncture. etiology and treatment are straightforward in those settings, since a site of dural disruption is known.1,2 With patient consent, we present a case in which intracranial hypotension resulted from dural puncture by a vertebral osteophytic spur. T...
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From the Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Received January 10, 2005. Revised and Accepted January 21, 2005. Reprint requests and correspondence to: Sung-Tsang Hsieh. MD. Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0033-8419,1527-1315
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2018181860