Delayed onset cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea.

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...

Delayed Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea Twenty Years After Septoplasty

A 56-year-old man underwent a septoplasty 20 years ago; however, one month prior to hospitalization he got a bad cold and cough, followed by a watery rhinorrhea. Computed tomography (CT) scan showed a defect in the right planum sphenoidale. After admission, with the typical clinic symptoms, the history of septoplasty and imageology evidence, the patient was diagnosed as delayed CSF rhinorrhea, ...

Unusual posttraumatic delayed cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea due to gunshot wound.

Delayed posttraumatic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea (CSFr) without meningitis is considered to be relatively rare. However, even years after trauma, recurrence or delayed onset of CSFr and meningitis due to CSFr are possible. In this article, a case of delayed CSFr from the sphenoid sinus without meningitis three years after the transfacial gunshot wound is reported. Plain high-resolution comp...

Endoscopic repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea

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...