Neurocysticercosis: a new differential in the diagnosis of postdural puncture headache.

Authors
Category Primary study
JournalAnesthesia and analgesia
Year 2003
IMPLICATIONS: Positional headache after spinal anesthesia is considered pathognomonic for postdural puncture headache. This report describes a patient who developed a positional headache after spinal anesthesia that was due to neurocysticercosis, a parasitic central nervous system infestation caused by the tapeworm Taenia solium.
Epistemonikos ID: 5ddf6299f8eeb1e3500db3cf2faab0168eefb029
First added on: Apr 16, 2014