IDIOPATHIC SPONTANEOUS CEREBROSPINAL-FLUID RHINORRHEA AND PNEUMOCEPHALUS - CASE-REPORT AND LITERATURE-REVIEW

Authors
ROBERTS GA FOY PM BOLGER C
Citation
Ga. Roberts et al., IDIOPATHIC SPONTANEOUS CEREBROSPINAL-FLUID RHINORRHEA AND PNEUMOCEPHALUS - CASE-REPORT AND LITERATURE-REVIEW, British journal of neurosurgery, 10(5), 1996, pp. 513-517
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Neurology",Surgery
Journal title
British journal of neurosurgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
02688697
Volume
10
Issue
5
Year of publication
1996
Pages
513 - 517
Database
ISI
SICI code
0268-8697(1996)10:5<513:ISCRAP>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We report a case of idiopathic spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorr hoea associated with marked intraventricular pneumocephalus. The patie nt, a 60-year-old male, presented with confusion and urinary incontine nce. CT cisternography failed to provide preoperative localization of the site of leakage.