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J R Soc Med 2008;101:259-261
doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070386
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‘Surgical’ causes of benign intracranial hypertension

Peter Alwyn Bodkin1 Md Faizul Hassan2 Philip John Kane3 Nick Brady4   Ian Roger Whittle1

1 Department of Neurosurgery, Western General Hospital Edinburgh
2 Department of Neurosurgery, Derriford Hospital Plymouth
3 Department of Neurosurgery, James Cook University Hospital Middlesborough
4 Department of Neuroradiology, James Cook University Hospital Middlesborough

Correspondence to: PA Bodkin peter_bodkin{at}hotmail.com

SUMMARY

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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