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INCREASED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE FOLLOWING BILATERAL NECK DISSECTION AND RADIOTHERAPY
Author(s) -
Kiers L.,
King J. O.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1991.tb00263.x
Subject(s) - medicine , neck dissection , intracranial pressure , dissection (medical) , surgery , venous pressure , intracranial pressure monitoring , radiation therapy , radiology , blood pressure , cancer
A case of symptomatic raised intracranial pressure following staged bilateral radical neck dissection is reported. Cerebral computerized tomography was normal. It was considered that the raised intracranial pressure was the result of inadequate collateral venous drainage from the brain.