Affiliation:
1. Assistant Professor, Headache and Facial Pain, Department of Neurology, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine
Abstract
Objectives: To report a case with post-surgical intracranial hypotension and inconclusive diagnostic findings.
Background: The diagnosis of spontaneous intracranial hypotension is based on positive neuroimaging findings and/or low CSF pressure on spinal tap. Despite this conventional definition, cases with normal CSF pressure have also been reported.
Results: This report explains a patient with post-surgical CSF leak, normal CSF opening pressure, and unremarkable imaging studies that responded well to the surgical repair.
Conclusion: Our case challenges the conventional diagnostic criteria of spontaneous intracranial hypotension. We suggest that clinical judgment should be considered in regard to the diagnosis of spontaneous intracranial hypotension.
Publisher
American Interventional Headache Society Annals of Headache Medicine
Subject
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