Radicular pain can be a symptom of elevated intracranial pressure

Morris D. Groves; Ian E. McCutcheon; Lawrence E. Ginsberg; Athanassios P. Kyritsis

doi:10.1212/wnl.52.5.1093

Radicular pain can be a symptom of elevated intracranial pressure

Morris D. Groves
, Ian E. McCutcheon
, Lawrence E. Ginsberg
, Athanassios P. Kyritsis

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1093-1095
Number of pages	3
Journal	Neurology
Volume	52
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.52.5.1093
State	Published - Mar 23 1999
Externally published	Yes

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