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[Post traumatic pneumoencephalus].
Medicina (B Aires)
September 2018
Hospital Central, Mendoza, Argentina.
Transmastoid approach to repair meningoencephalic herniation in the middle ear.
Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital
April 2013
Department of Head and Neck Surgery - Otorhinolaryngology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
Meningoencephalic herniation (MEH) in the middle ear and mastoid is a rare pathological entity with possible life-threatening complications. We treated 24 patients with a trans-mastoid approach, and the bony defect was closed by heterologous materials positioned in a multilayer fashion. The cause of the bony defect were chronic otitis media with cholesteatoma, iatrogenic, spontaneous and post-traumatic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Post-traumatic pneumoencephalus].
Med Clin (Barc)
March 2012
Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Peltier, Djibuti.
Pneumorrhachis (PR), the presence of air in the spinal canal, is a rare but suggestive radiographic finding, associated to different aetiologies and possible pathways of air entry into the spinal canal. It can be divided into primary and secondary PR, descriptively classified into extra- or intradural PR and aetiologically subsumed into iatrogenic, traumatic and non traumatic PR. Pneumoencephalus (PE), lack of air in the skull, is the equivalent intracranial phenomenon, associated mostly with traumatic or iatrogenic aetiology.
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