Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea Indirectly Caused by Brain Tumor
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Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea indirectly caused by brain tumor--report of two cases and review of the literature.
Two cases of nontraumatic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea were presumed to be an indirect manifesta tion of brain tumor. One patient had a parietal convexity meningioma and the other a cerebello pontine angle neurinoma. Following excision of the tumors these patients spontaneously developed cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, which disappeared after the repair of fistulas at the base of the frontal ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurologia medico-chirurgica
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0470-8105,1349-8029
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.27.637