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Problems in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pseudotumor Cerebri

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

James J. Corbett
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It is an honor to be asked to deliver the Silversides Lecture. Dr. Silversides’ clear understanding of the need for the collaboration of the basic and clinical sciences is a measure of the good sense for which he is admired. For a clinician, the greatest challenge to his clinical judgment lies in formulation of strategies to deal with vexing and serious conditions. Often we are called upon to treat conditions for which no satisfactory pathophysiologic mechanism has been elucidated. It is said that the clinician must frequently “get on top of the problem before he gets to the bottom of it.” In the spirit of all clinicians who seek better clinical approaches to poorly understood disease, I will devote this discussion to the diagnosis and treatment of pseudotumor cerebri.

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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , November 1983 , pp. 221 - 229
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Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1983

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