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Lateral Spinal CSF Leaks in Patients with Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: Radiologic-Anatomic Study of Different Variants

Wouter I. Schievink, Marcel M. Maya, Angelique Sao-Mai S. Tay, Rachelle B. Taché, Ravi S. Prasad, Vikram Wadhwa and Miriam Nuño
American Journal of Neuroradiology July 2024, 45 (7) 951-956; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A8261
Wouter I. Schievink
aFrom the Department of Neurosurgery (W.I.S., M.M.M., A.S.-M., S.T., R.B.T., R.S.P., V.W.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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Marcel M. Maya
aFrom the Department of Neurosurgery (W.I.S., M.M.M., A.S.-M., S.T., R.B.T., R.S.P., V.W.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
bDepartment of Imaging (M.M.M., R.S.P., V.W.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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Angelique Sao-Mai S. Tay
aFrom the Department of Neurosurgery (W.I.S., M.M.M., A.S.-M., S.T., R.B.T., R.S.P., V.W.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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Rachelle B. Taché
aFrom the Department of Neurosurgery (W.I.S., M.M.M., A.S.-M., S.T., R.B.T., R.S.P., V.W.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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Ravi S. Prasad
aFrom the Department of Neurosurgery (W.I.S., M.M.M., A.S.-M., S.T., R.B.T., R.S.P., V.W.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
bDepartment of Imaging (M.M.M., R.S.P., V.W.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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Vikram Wadhwa
aFrom the Department of Neurosurgery (W.I.S., M.M.M., A.S.-M., S.T., R.B.T., R.S.P., V.W.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
bDepartment of Imaging (M.M.M., R.S.P., V.W.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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Miriam Nuño
cDepartment of Public Health Sciences (M.N.), University of California, Davis, California
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Wouter I. Schievink, Marcel M. Maya, Angelique Sao-Mai S. Tay, Rachelle B. Taché, Ravi S. Prasad, Vikram Wadhwa, Miriam Nuño
Lateral Spinal CSF Leaks in Patients with Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: Radiologic-Anatomic Study of Different Variants
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