Subdural haematoma after spinal anaesthesia – do we always need brain computed tomography in post-dural puncture headache? Letter to the Editor

Dariusz Kotlęga, Anna Boczar-Wójcik, Barbara Peda, Przemysław Nowacki

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Dear Editor-in-Chief, We would like to indicate a disorder that is very rare, may easily be misdiagnosed, and at the same time provokes diagnostic doubts. We will try to answer the question of whether all patients with post-dural puncture headache have to undergo a brain computed tomography (CT) scan (...)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21164/pomjlifesci.189

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