TY - JOUR T1 - Fifteen-minute consultation: the child with idiopathic intracranial hypertension JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 166 LP - 172 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305818 VL - 99 IS - 5 AU - Mohamed O E Babiker AU - Manish Prasad AU - Stewart MacLeod AU - Gabriel Chow AU - William P Whitehouse Y1 - 2014/10/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/99/5/166.abstract N2 - Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a rare condition where intracranial hypertension is found in the context of normal brain parenchyma and no mass lesion, ventriculomegaly, underlying infection, or malignancy. Our understanding of this condition has greatly improved in the recent years with neuroimaging features and normal values for lumbar puncture opening pressure now well defined. This article provides a review of IIH in children and revised diagnostic criteria based on recent evidence and published opinion. We have also presented an algorithmic approach to the child with possible IIH. ER -