title: [Postpuncture headache].
abstract: The present study recorded prospectively subjective complaints after lumbar puncture as diagnostic procedure (n = 59), spinal - (n = 41) and peridural anaesthesia (n = 45) over a time interval of 28 days. Posture dependent headaches were never observed following peridural anaesthesis. This result disproves the hypothesis of a purely psychogenic origin of postpunctional headache. The frequency of occurrence of the postpunctional syndrome was 39% after lumbar puncture, but only 4.9% after spinal anaesthesis. The observed difference is due to the fact that needles with a smaller diameter are applied in spinal anaesthesia.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000773:Anesthesia, Obstetrical; D000775:Anesthesia, Spinal; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D008297:Male; D009192:Myelography; D009339:Needles; D011247:Pregnancy; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D013129:Spinal Puncture / Q000295:instrumentation
vernacular_title: Der postpunktionelle Kopfschmerz.