The Frequency of Early Post Traumatic Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea in Patients with Head Trauma

Extracranial repair of pediatric traumatic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea.

OBJECTIVE To examine the methods of extracranial repair of traumatic defects in the cribriform plate and ethmoid roof resulting in persistent cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea in pediatric patients. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING A single-institution, tertiary care, pediatric hospital. PATIENTS Four children, ranging in age from 3 1/2 to 9 years, who sustained fractures in t...

Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea

INTRODUCTION Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leakage is usually caused by developmental abnormalities and is rare, accounting for approximately 5% of the cases of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage. To the best of our knowledge, clival dysplasia-caused CSF rhinorrhea has never been reported in the neurosurgical field. CONCLUSION Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea is often treated by su...

Spontaneous recovery of post-traumatic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea following meningitis: A case report.

The aim of the present report was to present the patient with an anterior cranial base fracture who developed post-traumatic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, which recovered after onset of meningitis complication. A 26-year-old male patient who had a traffic accident one week ago was sent to our clinic because of his rhinorrhea persisting for 4 days. On cranial computed tomography, fracture of t...

Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea: evaluation with metrizamide cisternography.

Metrizamide computed tomographic cisternography was used to examine 27 patients (19 males and eight females, 14-59 years old) clinically suspected of having cerebrospinal fluid fistulae with rhinorrhea. Twenty-one fistulae were traumatic and six were spontaneous. Five to 6 ml of metrizamide (or lopamidol, two cases) were injected by lumbar puncture at a concentration of 185-200 mg I/ml for dire...

Endoscopic repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea