[Isolated exertion headache and Chiari's malformation].
A 47 year-old woman had been suffering from exertional headache for 2 1/2 years. Neurological examination was normal. X-rays of the skull and cranio-cervical junction and CT were normal. MRI sagittal sections disclosed a Chiari type I malformation. The headache disappeared after occipital craniectomy and atlas laminectomy.
Hubert
P
P
Service de Neurochirurgie, CHU Côte-de-Nacre, Caen.
Viader
F
F
Houtteville
J P
JP
Benazza
A
A
D001139:Arnold-Chiari Malformation / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D005082:Physical Exertion