Spontaneous Pneumocephalus.

نویسندگان

  • Suvrendu Sankar Kar
  • Jyotirmay Pal
  • Suvendu Jana
  • Swati Kumar
  • Partha Sarathi Karmakar
  • Anindya Sarkar
  • Cankatika Chowdhuiy
چکیده

6. Steudel W, Hacker H. Acute intracranial pneumocephalus: prognosis anil management a retrospective analysis of 101 cases. Neurosurg Rev 1989; 12(Suppl 1):125-136. A 3 3 y e a r o l d n o n d i a b e t i c , nonmotensive female presented with sudden onset, diffuse and deep boring headache and vomiting for 15 days. She also had complaints of watering from nose which was present in all postures. There was no history of convulsions, loss of consciousness or fever. There was no past history of t rauma, surgical intervent ions or any features suggestive of CSF rhinorrhoea or meningitis. Routine blood parameters were within normal hunt. CT scan of brain showed multiple hypodense lesions diffusely over brain parenchyma (Figure 1).

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India

دوره 65 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017