The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

 


Volume 69 Numbers 1 & 2
January/March 2002 		back to contents
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Presenting as Post-dural Puncture Headache: A Case Report 109-110

Jason B. Wells, M.D.1, and Ian H. Sampson, M.D.2

1Resident and 2Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Address correspondence to Jason B. Wells, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology, Box 1010, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One East 100th Street, New York, NY 10029-6574.

ABSTRACT

A case of subarachnoid hemorrhage following spinal anesthesia for prostate radioactive seed implantation is reported. The implications of the differential diagnosis of post-dural puncture headache are discussed.

KEYWORDS

Spinal anesthesia, cerebral aneurysm, anesthetic complications, post-dural puncture headache

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