Surgical treatment of cervical disc protrusion causing intracranial hypotension following chiropractic manipulation. Issue 9 (September 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wilson, David; Steel, Timothy; Sutton, Ian
• Is Part Of: Journal of clinical neuroscience. Volume 22:Issue 9(2015:Sep.)
• Page Start: 1523
• Page End: 1525
• Publication Date: 2015-09
• Subjects: Anterior cervical discectomy -- Cerebrospinal fluid leak -- Cervical disc -- Cervical spine -- Chiropractic -- Intracranial hypotension -- Orthostatic headache; Brain -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Neurosciences -- Periodicals; Nervous system -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Brain -- surgery -- Periodicals; Neurosurgical Procedures -- Periodicals; Neurosciences -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 616.8
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2015.03.017
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0967-5868

Abstract

Abstract: We describe a woman with intracranial hypotension provoked by a combination of calcified disc protrusion and chiropractic manipulation who required surgical intervention for definitive treatment. Intracranial hypotension is a rare but increasingly well recognized cause of orthostatic headache that arises due to spinal cerebrospinal fluid leakage from meningeal diverticula or dural perforations.