Teaching NeuroImages: A dangerous complication of spontaneous intracranial hypotension
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Teaching neuroimages: a dangerous complication of spontaneous intracranial hypotension.
A 43-year-old man presented with a nontraumatic orthostatic headache, spatial disorientation, and visual hallucinations ("colored flames"). General and neurologic examination were normal. Turbo spin echo T2-weighted MRI showed bilateral subdural fluid collection and venous sinus engorgement (figure, A), suggesting spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH). Two subdural hematomas were also foun...
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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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Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is an increasingly recognised syndrome. Postural headache with typical findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are the key to diagnosis. Orthostatic headache, low cerebrospinal fluid opening pressure, and diffuse meningeal enhancement on post-contrast T1-weighted MRI brain studies are the major features of this increasingly recognised syndrome. He...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000000213