TY - JOUR
T1 - Radicular pain can be a symptom of elevated intracranial pressure
AU - Groves, Morris D.
AU - McCutcheon, Ian E.
AU - Ginsberg, Lawrence E.
AU - Kyritsis, Athanassios P.
PY - 1999/3/23
Y1 - 1999/3/23
N2 - We report two patients with leptomeningeal metastatic disease, one from breast cancer and the other from a spinal cord glioma, who developed episodic elevated intracranial pressure (ICP), each episode accompanied by the gradual onset of severe spine and radicular pain. Symptoms of pain promptly and completely resolved with opening of the on-off valve of each patient's ventriculoperitoneal shunt. It is theorized that the patients' radicular pain was caused by nerve root ischemia secondary to elevated ICP.
AB - We report two patients with leptomeningeal metastatic disease, one from breast cancer and the other from a spinal cord glioma, who developed episodic elevated intracranial pressure (ICP), each episode accompanied by the gradual onset of severe spine and radicular pain. Symptoms of pain promptly and completely resolved with opening of the on-off valve of each patient's ventriculoperitoneal shunt. It is theorized that the patients' radicular pain was caused by nerve root ischemia secondary to elevated ICP.
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U2 - 10.1212/wnl.52.5.1093
DO - 10.1212/wnl.52.5.1093
M3 - Article
C2 - 10102441
AN - SCOPUS:0033596832
SN - 0028-3878
VL - 52
SP - 1093
EP - 1095
JO - Neurology
JF - Neurology
IS - 5
ER -