Rapid transit of tracer to the kidneys and urinary bladder in radionuclide cisternography. A sign of CSF leak. Academic Article

abstract

• A 20-year-old woman complained of postural headache after severe emesis. Lumbar puncture showed no abnormality except for low cerebrospinal fluid pressure. Radionuclide cisternography at 4-hour and 24-hours showed no tracer in the basal cisterns or cerebral convexities. The 4-hour image showed tracer in the renal area, and at 24 hours there was tracer in the urinary bladder. There was no direct evidence of CSF leak. ACTmyelogram showed a CSF leak near the third and fourth lumbar nerve roots.

authors

• Pettigrew, Roderic

published proceedings

• Clin Nucl Med

author list (cited authors)

• Halkar, R., Pettigrew, R., Lipman, C., & Gilles, L.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Halkar, R||Pettigrew, R||Lipman, C||Gilles, L

publication date

• January 1997

publisher

• Wolters Kluwer  Publisher

published in

• Clinical Nuclear Medicine  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Cerebrospinal Fluid
• Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure
• Female
• Humans
• Indium Radioisotopes
• Kidney
• Pentetic Acid
• Radionuclide Imaging
• Radiopharmaceuticals
• Spinal Cord
• Urinary Bladder

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1097/00003072-199702000-00012

start page

• 121

end page

• 123

volume

• 22

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00003072-199702000-00012