Surgical treatment of spontaneous intracranial hypotension associated with a spinal arachnoid diverticulum. Case report.
The authors present the case of a 22-year-old woman who developed spontaneous intracranial hypotension as a result of a cerebrospinal fluid leak from a thoracic extradural arachnoid diverticulum. The patient was successfully treated by ligation of the diverticulum. The entity of spontaneous intracranial hypotension and its relevance to neurosurgery are discussed.
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Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Florida.
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D000328:Adult; D001099:Arachnoid; D004240:Diverticulum / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007427:Intracranial Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D007796:Laminectomy; D009192:Myelography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed