Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea: a rare clinical entity
| Autor: | Kapil Mohan Rajwani, Mike O'Connell, Sorin Bucur |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea business.industry Nostril Endoscopy General Medicine medicine.disease Article Head trauma Surgery Diagnosis Differential medicine.anatomical_structure Cerebrospinal fluid medicine Humans Female Neurosurgery Differential diagnosis Tomography X-Ray Computed business Aged |
| Zdroj: | Case Reports. 2014:bcr2013202808-bcr2013202808 |
| ISSN: | 1757-790X |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bcr-2013-202808 |
| Popis: | Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhoea is usually secondary to severe head trauma. Spontaneous CSF leak is an infrequent entity and represents only 4% of CSF rhinorrhoea cases.1 A 70-year-old obese woman (body mass index 36.5) was seen in outpatients with an 8-week history of clear discharge from her left nostril which was worse on exertion. She had a similar episode of left rhinorrhoea 4 months ago, which lasted about … |
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