Abstract
Before the advent of sophisticated neuroimaging techniques neurologists have been puzzled by patients with apparent symptoms of elevated intracranial pressure suggesting a space occupying lesion, who did not take the predicted fatal course (Quincke 1897). Various labels such as idiopathic (benign) intracranial hypertension, pseudotumor cerebri have been applied to this condition. In this short review we will use the term pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) and will consider the definition, clinical picture, complications, etiological theories and therapeutic measures as discussed in the recent literature.
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Münte, T.F., Jöbges, E.M., Johannes, S. (1996). Pseudotumor cerebri: Symptoms, associations, etiological considerations and therapy. In: Ernst, A., Marchbanks, R., Samii, M. (eds) Intracranial and Intralabyrinthine Fluids. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80163-1_34
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