The pseudotumor cerebri syndrome : pseudotumor cerebri, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, benign intracranial hypertension and related conditions

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The work The pseudotumor cerebri syndrome : pseudotumor cerebri, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, benign intracranial hypertension and related conditions represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The pseudotumor cerebri syndrome : pseudotumor cerebri, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, benign intracranial hypertension and related conditions

Title remainder

pseudotumor cerebri, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, benign intracranial hypertension and related conditions

Statement of responsibility

Ian Johnston, Brian Owler, John Pickard

Creator

• Johnston, Ian, 1939-

Contributor

• Owler, Brian
• Pickard, J. D., (John D)

Subject

• Intracranial hypertension
• Intracranial pressure
• Pseudotumor Cerebri
• Intracranial Hypertension

Language

eng

Summary

The condition known most widely as pseudotumor cerebri syndrome is of diagnostic interest and clinical importance not just to neurosurgeons, but also to neurologists, ophthalmologists and headache specialists. Variously called idiopathic intracranial hypertension, benign intracranial hypertension, and other names over the century or so since it was first recognised, the authors argue for the grouping of all these conditions under the name of pseudotumor cerebri syndrome on the basis of a common underlying mechanism - an impairment of CSF absorption due to abnormalities at the CSF/venous interface. The book reviews the development of ideas around some of the more contentious issues and deals in depth with aetiology, investigative findings and strategies, treatment and outcome, and in the concluding chapter, considers the possibility of establishing an experimental model to facilitate analysis of the unresolved issues, and pointing the way to a more complete understanding of this controversial condition

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

RC386.2

LC item number

.J64 2007eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries