metrizamide and Hematoma--Subdural

Topics: Adult; Hematoma, Subdural; Humans; Male; Metrizamide; Myelography; Spinal Puncture

Headaches for a short period after metrizamide myelography are common. It is unusual for these headaches to persist beyond four days. The case of a patient whose headache dated from the time of myelography and in whom an intracranial subdural haematoma developed after myelography is presented, to draw attention to this rare complication.

Topics: Adult; Female; Headache; Hematoma, Subdural; Humans; Male; Metrizamide; Myelography; Retrospective Studies

We have studied the diagnostic value of computed tomography with metrizamide CSF enhancement in 37 infants. According to the method of injection, we called CT cisternography, CT ventriculography and CT cystography. These methods were useful for the morphologic and dynamic evaluation of the CSF pathways. We used them especially for the evaluation of hydrocephalus, skull base tumor, infantile subdural hematoma and its allied diseases, or congenital cystic lesion such as Dandy-Walker syndrome. The side effects in children are much less than those in adults.

Topics: Adolescent; Atrophy; Brain; Cerebral Ventriculography; Child; Child, Preschool; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Hematoma, Subdural; Humans; Hydrocephalus; Infant; Male; Metrizamide; Radiographic Image Enhancement; Tomography, X-Ray Computed