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Case Reports
. 2008 May;101(5):259-61.
doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2008.070386.

'Surgical' causes of benign intracranial hypertension

Peter Alwyn Bodkin  1 , Md Faizul Hassan, Philip John Kane, Nick Brady, Ian Roger Whittle
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Case Reports

'Surgical' causes of benign intracranial hypertension

Peter Alwyn Bodkin et al. J R Soc Med. 2008 May.

Abstract

Benign intracranial hypertension is a clinical diagnosis linked to a number of medical and surgical disorders. A common aetiology has not yet been established. It would seem, however, that many, if not all, of these cases can be related to some degree of cerebral venous outflow obstruction. We present here a series of patients with extraluminal compression of the cerebral venous sinuses that has been amenable to surgical resection. These 'surgical' causes of BIH illustrate an important subset of the disease and inform us about the possible pathophysiological principles underlying the disorder.

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Case 1. Sagittal CT venogram showing fracture site and filling defect
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Case 3. Sagittal T1 weighted MRI demonstrating supra- and infra- tentorial meningioma compressing the torcula
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Case 2. Axial T2 weighted MRI with contrast showing occipital eosinophilic granuloma
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