[Neuroophthalmological complications through liquor leakage after surgical operation on the spinal canal for diagnostic i.e. therapeutic purposes (author's transl)].
The rare liquor leakage syndrome with cranial nerve lesion, which preferably affects the eye-muscle nerves, can be caused either by further leakage of liquor cerebrospinalis through the dura hole made by the lumbar puncture - or after a surgical operation on the spinal canal leaving a dura closure, which is not tight. This does not occur after a suboccipital puncture. A report is given on three cases with different eye-muscle paresis after a simple diagnostic lumbar puncture, after a lumbosacral myelography and after a resection of the sacral nerve roots including the filum terminale and caudal dural sac. The prognosis of the eye-muscle paresis is good. Restitutio ad integrum resulted. A fourth case with temporary loss of sight of one eye is reported after a lumbar air encephalography, but the eye nerves were damaged before as a result of previous tuberculous basal meningitis. Only partial recovery of the visual power occurred.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001416:Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D008297:Male; D009886:Ophthalmoplegia / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000209:etiology; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D013115:Spinal Canal / Q000601:surgery*; D013129:Spinal Puncture / Q000009:adverse effects*
Neuroophthalmologische Komplikationen durch Liquor=leckage nach diagnostischen bzw. therapeutischen Eingriffen am Spinalkanal.