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What Does This MRI Report Indicate?
My wife on mri report says part empty sella and tortous bilateral optic nerves with Prominent bilateral Meckel cave . To rule out benign intracranial hypertension, she is suffering immense head ach, doctor requested to csf test from back bone, is it this test is safe, because some body from our relative had big problem after this test please help about this report and further side effect from csf removing from spinal cord
Mon, 6 Jun 2016
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I really appreciate your concern, if the imaging finding are suggestive of invisible pituitary gland and twisted optic nerve then CSF analysis is must to rule out the internal cerebral pressure due to fluid hope this information helps.
Well come to HCM
I really appreciate your concern, if the imaging finding are suggestive of invisible pituitary gland and twisted optic nerve then CSF analysis is must to rule out the internal cerebral pressure due to fluid hope this information helps.
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