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Is Lumbar Puncture Needed? – Noninvasive Assessment of ICP Facilitates Decision Making in Patients with Suspected Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension

Purpose  Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) usually occurs in obese women of childbearing age. Typical symptoms are headache and sight impairment. Lumbar puncture (LP) is routinely used for both diagnosis and therapy (via cerebrospinal fluid drainage) of IIH. In this study, noninvasively ass...

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Autores principales: Schmidt, Bernhard, Czosnyka, Marek, Cardim, Danilo, Czosnyka, Zofia, Rosengarten, Bernhard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2021
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10063336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34496407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-1586-6487