Congenital predisposition to spontaneous intracranial hypotension: a case report.
Dural rupture, cerebrospinal fluid leakage, and spontaneous intracranial hypotension may complicate significant or minimal spinal trauma and cause chronic headache with a positional component. While such cases typically reflect no pre-existing predilection, we encountered a patient whose cervicothoracic anatomy appeared to predispose him to this complication.
Ontachi
Yasuo
Y
Department of Internal Medicine, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, 13-1 Takaramachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8641, Japan.
Sakajiri
Ken-ichi
K
Higashi
Sohtaro
S
Yokoyama
Kunihiko
K
Suzuki
Masayuki
M
Asakura
Hidesaku
H
Nakao
Shinji
S
D000328:Adult; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D020863:Central Nervous System Cysts / Q000150:complications* / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis; D015444:Exercise; D006801:Humans; D019585:Intracranial Hypotension / Q000209:etiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008578:Meninges / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000293:injuries; D009192:Myelography; D012421:Rupture