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Effect of intracranial pressure on the diameter of the optic nerve sheath

Arata Watanabe, Hiroyuki Kinouchi, Toru Horikoshi, Mikito Uchida, Keiichi Ishigame

Journal of neurosurgery · 2008 · 121 citations · 15 references

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Abstract

Increased ONS diameter measured on coronal orbital thin-slice fat-saturated T2-weighted MR images is a strong indicator of increased ICP, and helps to differentiate between passive subdural fluid collection due to brain atrophy and subdural hygroma with increased ICP.

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