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Radionuclide cisternography in intracranial hypotension syndrome
Jingming Bai1, Kunihiko Yokoyama, Seigo Kinuya
1Department of Biotracer Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Japan. bjingming@nmd.m.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Annals of Nuclear Medicine
|April 2, 2002
Abstract:
A 44-year-old male patient complaining of severe headache right after twisting his body during aerobic exercises in a swimming pool underwent In-111 DTPA radionuclide cisternography. Leakage of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was proved on the right side of T2 and T3 vertebrae. Cisternography after bed and conservative treatments demonstrated the disappearance of abnormal tracer accumulations. Radionuclide cisternography is of great value in diagnosing cerebral-spinal fluid leak and in evaluating the therapeutic effect.