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Orv Hetil
September 2024
3 Semmelweis Egyetem, Általános Orvostudományi Kar, Idegsebészeti és Neurointervenciós Klinika Budapest Magyarország.
Nasal liquorrhea the outflow of cerebrospinal fluid from the cerebrospinal fluid spaces of the cranial cavity into the nasal cavity or paranasal sinuses due to the presence of a congenital or acquired defect in the bones of the skull base and meninges of various etiologies. Nasal liquorrhea leads to potentially fatal complications: meningitis, meningoencephalitis, pneumocephalus, brain abscess. Also, with nasal liquorrhea, less dangerous complications may occur: aspiration bronchopneumonia and gastritis.
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September 2022
South Ural State Medical University, Chelyabinsk, Russia.
A clinical case of incorrect verification of the angiosarcoma of the ethmoidal labyrinth and frontal sinus in a 36-year-old man is presented. A feature of this case is the disregard of additional research methods without taking into account the unilateralism of the pathological process, which led to the wrong tactics of surgical treatment and the development of a relapse of the disease complicated by nasal liquorrhea. A thorough examination of the patient and an analysis of a series of computer tomograms of the paranasal sinuses suggested a diagnosis of malignancy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Determine the influence of the anatomical features and sizes of the lateral pocket with a defect on the choice of surgical access and the quality of the performed plastics.
Material And Methods: A retrospective analysis of computed tomograms of 38 patients who underwent surgical treatment at the Burdenko National Medical Research Center for Neurosurgery of the Ministry of Health of Russia about defects of the skull base in the area of the lateral pocket of the sphenoid sinus. The patients were divided into three groups depending on the approach used (the 1st group), the recurrence rate (the 2nd group), and the characteristics of intraoperative visualization of the defect (the 3rd group).
J Med Life
October 2021
Department of Neurology, University Emergency Hospital Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Spontaneous intracranial hypotension is a rare clinical entity caused in most cases by a cerebrospinal fluid leak occurring at the level of the spinal cord. Cranial dural leaks have been previously reported as a cause of orthostatic headaches but, as opposed to spinal dural leaks, were not associated with other findings characteristic of spontaneous intracranial hypotension. We present the case of a male admitted for severe orthostatic headache.
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