The Pseudotumor Cerebri Syndrome: Pseudotumor Cerebri, Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, Benign Intracranial Hypertension and Related ConditionsThe 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. |
Contents
Section 13 | 164 |
Section 14 | 171 |
Section 15 | 177 |
Section 16 | 179 |
Section 17 | 189 |
Section 18 | 227 |
Section 19 | 232 |
Section 20 | 246 |
Section 9 | 127 |
Section 10 | 130 |
Section 11 | 148 |
Section 12 | 157 |
Section 21 | 250 |
Section 22 | 256 |
Section 23 | 260 |
Section 24 | 275 |
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