MRI findings in liquor hypotension syndrome
- 30.11.2018
- Neuro-Images
- Verfasst von
- Koen Delmotte
- Philip Demaerel
- Jelle Demeestere
- Erschienen in
- Acta Neurologica Belgica | Ausgabe 2/2019
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A 59-year-old woman presented with a 10-day history of unprovoked, acute-onset bilateral occipital headache and neck pain. The headache worsened with being upright and disappeared minutes after lying down. She experienced associated nausea and auditory changes, described as ‘being within a bubble’. As her symptoms progressed, she developed a postural bilateral tinnitus. Brain magnetic resonance (MR) imaging showed typical signs of liquor hypotension syndrome (Fig. 1) [1, 2]. A lumbar blood patch had no sustained effect. MR myelography confirmed a cerebrospinal fluid leak at the D1–D2 junction (Fig. 2). Symptoms completely resolved after targeted blood patch using an epidural catheter. …
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- Titel
- MRI findings in liquor hypotension syndrome
- Verfasst von
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Koen Delmotte
Philip Demaerel
Jelle Demeestere
- Publikationsdatum
- 30.11.2018
- Verlag
- Springer International Publishing
- Erschienen in
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Acta Neurologica Belgica / Ausgabe 2/2019
Print ISSN: 0300-9009
Elektronische ISSN: 2240-2993 - DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-018-1053-2
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