title: Surgical treatment of spontaneous intracranial hypotension associated with a spinal arachnoid diverticulum. Case report.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Florida.
authors.forename: W I
authors.initials: WI
authors.lastname: Schievink
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Reimer
authors.forename: W N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Folger
mesh_terms: 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