INTERESTING INFORMATION: Intracranial hypertension is a clinical entity with a myriad of known and putative etiologies. In the history of this condition, the name given to the clinical syndrome referred to as PTC or more commonly IIH has varied widely and been the subject of much contention.1 Heinrich Quincke, an early pioneer in the use of lumbar puncture, reported the first recorded cases of intracranial hypertension of unknown cause in what he described as “meningitis serosa” in 1893; at that time, he posited that inadequate CSF resorption was responsible for the syndrome, a theory that is still entertained by some researchers. The term “PTC” was coined in 1904 by Nonne to describe a condition characterized by symptoms associated with intracranial tumors with an unusual course of remission and subsequently termed “benign intracranial hypertension” by Foley in 1955.
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