Johnston I, Morgan M K
Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia.
Neurosurgery. 1991 May;28(5):727-9. doi: 10.1097/00006123-199105000-00016.
A family in which the mother and two of four daughters had a diagnosis of pseudotumor cerebri and one son developed communicating hydrocephalus is described. The other two daughters both have a long history of headaches but no signs of intracranial hypertension. The argument is advanced that there exists a defect of cerebrospinal fluid absorption common to pseudotumor cerebri and communicating hydrocephalus.