title: [Isolated exertion headache and Chiari's malformation].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurochirurgie, CHU Côte-de-Nacre, Caen.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hubert
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Viader
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Houtteville
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Benazza
mesh_terms: D001139:Arnold-Chiari Malformation / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D005082:Physical Exertion