Epidural fibrin clot for the prevention of post-lumbar puncture headache: a new method with risks.
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Post-dural puncture headache: pathophysiology, prevention and treatment.
Post-dural puncture headache (PDPHA) has been a vexing problem for patients undergoing dural puncture for spinal anaesthesia, as a complication of epidural anaesthesia, and after diagnostic lumbar puncture since Bier reported the first case in 1898. This Chapter discusses the pathophysiology of low-pressure headache resulting from leakage of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the subarachnoid to th...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
دوره 50 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1987