Closed Head Injury: How Air Reaches the Cranial Venous Sinus?

Air in the intracranial vascular compartment is uncommon, with only few reported case in the literature. In the absence of surgery or open head trauma, the origin of air bubbles in the venous sinus is still debated. We report a case of patient admitted in emergency room few minutes after a severe closed head injury, and in whom, the cranial CT-scan demonstrated feature of air along the superior sagittal sinus. Mechanisms explaining how air reaches the venous compartment will be discussed. *Corresponding author: Abad Cherif El Asri, Department of Neurosurgery, Military Hospital, Rabat, Morocco, E-mail: [email protected] Received March 22, 2012; Accepted May 23, 2012 Published May 25, 2012 Citation: El Asri AC (2012) Closed Head Injury: How Air Reaches the Cranial Venous Sinus? Emergency Med 2:121. doi:10.4172/2165-7548.1000121 Copyright: © 2012 El Asri AC. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.