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Thunderclap Headache Caused by Minimally Invasive Medical Procedures: Description of 2 Cases
Author(s) -
Devetag Chalaupka Flavio,
Caneve Giorgio,
Mauri Michela,
Zaiotti Giuseppe
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2006.00699.x
Subject(s) - pneumocephalus , medicine , lumbar puncture , anesthesia , surgery , subarachnoid space , intrathecal , epidural space , intracranial hypotension , minimally invasive procedures , cerebrospinal fluid , complication , pathology
We report 2 very unusual cases of thunderclap headache complicating minimally invasive medical procedures. In the first case headache developed as the consequence of a pneumocephalus caused by an inadvertent intrathecal puncture during oxygen‐ozone therapy for lumbar disk herniation. The second case involved intracranial hypotension, caused by the persistence of the needle, used for epidural anesthesia, and then penetrated in the subarachnoid space.