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Priscilla Nethala1, Sandhya Gh2, Sumanth Shivaram3
1Department of General Medicine, Bangalore Baptist Hospital, Bangalore, India.
Abstract:
Spinal dural tears are being increasingly recongnized to cause superficial siderosis and intracranial hypotension. We report a patient with chronic headache who was detected to have cerebellar superficial siderosis and subtle signs of intracranial hypotension on imaging. Spinal imaging showed an upper thoracic dural tear secondary to a paradiscal osteophyte. She improved significantly with surgical repair of the tear. We highlight the importance of recognizing superficial sideorsis in patients with chronic headache as it serves as a marker for dural tear and intracranial hypotension.
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