title: Intracranial hypotension after syringopleural shunting in posttraumatic syringomyelia: Case report and review of the literature.
abstract: We report a case of a 45-year-old male with a syringopleural shunt who developed intracranial hypotension. The patient presented with 2 weeks history of worsening headache and back pain, on a background of having had a syringopleural shunt inserted for a thoracic posttraumatic syrinx. Computerized tomography imaging of the brain revealed bilateral subdural fluid collections. Magnetic resonance imaging appearances of spinal and intracranial pachymeningeal enhancement confirmed intracranial hypotension. We present a rare case of intracranial hypotension secondary to syringopleural shunting in a patient with posttraumatic syringomyelia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Monash Medical Centre, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Johanne C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Summers
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, The Alfred Hospital, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Yagnesh
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Vellore
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, The Alfred Hospital, Victoria, Australia ; Department of Surgery, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Patrick C H
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, The Alfred Hospital, Victoria, Australia ; Department of Surgery, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Jeffrey V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Rosenfeld
keywords: Intracranial hypotension; subdural collection; syringomyelia; syringopleural shunt