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Paroxysmal intracranial hypertension
Author(s) -
Kidd D.,
Wilson P. L.,
Unwin B.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
european journal of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.881
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1468-1331
pISSN - 1351-5101
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2005.01118.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intracranial pressure , pseudotumor cerebri , raised intracranial pressure , anesthesia
We present the case of a man who presented with headache and severe papilloedema which was caused not by chronic intracranial hypertension but by paroxysms of raised intracranial pressure, and we speculate what relationship this disorder has to idiopathic intracranial hypertension.