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- Title
Pseudoarachnoiditis in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension.
- Authors
Alkan, Özlem; Yıldırım, Tülin; Kızılkıkıç, Osman; Albayram, Sait; Altınkaya, Naime
- Abstract
Spontaneous intracranial hypotension is an important cause of new daily persistent headaches in young and middle-aged individuals. The diagnosis is made based on low cerebrospinal fluid pressure with characteristic findings upon brain and spinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We present the case of a 15-year-old boy with spontaneous intracranial hypotension. Although his brain MRI was normal, his lumbar spinal MRI showed clustering of the nerve roots characteristic of arachnoiditis. Radionuclide cisternography revealed an epidural leak, which was treated with an epidural blood patch. The patient reached a near-full recovery within 24 h, and the lumbar spinal MRI findings mimicking arachnoiditis disappeared.
- Subjects
HYPOTENSION; HEADACHE; CEREBROSPINAL fluid pressure; MAGNETIC resonance imaging of the brain; SPINE; MAGNETIC resonance imaging
- Publication
Balkan Medical Journal, 2011, Vol 28, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
2146-3123
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5174/tutfd.2009.02293.1