Extracranial Repair of Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea

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...

Endoscopic repair of 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...

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...

TITLE: Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea and Otorrhea

"This material was prepared by resident physicians in partial fulfillment of educational requirements established for the Postgraduate Training Program of the UTMB Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and was not intended for clinical use in its present form. It was prepared for the purpose of stimulating group discussion in a conference setting. No warranties, either express or i...