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Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2007; 05(04): 323-325
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1557414
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York

Intracranial hypotension syndrome following surgery of the spine: A rare cause of postural headache in adolescence

Michael Karremann
a   Department of Pediatrics, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
,
Steffen Sojka
b   Department of Nuclear Medicine, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
,
Regina Huehn
a   Department of Pediatrics, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
,
Uwe Preiss
a   Department of Pediatrics, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
,
Frank Schmidt
a   Department of Pediatrics, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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12 June 2007

03 August 2007

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30 July 2015 (online)

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Abstract

We report on a seventeen-year-old boy presenting with postural headache caused by intracranial hypotension following surgical treatment of juvenile scoliosis. The clinical presentation, diagnostic findings and treatment are described and a review of the relevant literature is given. It is concluded that physicians should be aware of intracranial hypotension syndrome as a possible, though rare, complication after spine surgery.

Keywords

Adolescence - caffeine - intracranial hypotension syndrome - postural headache - spine surgery