title: Aberrant cerebrospinal fluid pathway. Detection by scintigraphy.
abstract: Radionuclide cisternography is routinely performed for assessment of normal and abnormal pathways and the hydrodynamics of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). An unusual case of a woman in whom cisternography provided the diagnosis of an iatrosenic spinopleural fistula with a large CSF collection in the pleural cavity, following surgical resection of a vertebra for a malignant tumor is presented.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005402:Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D010994:Pleura; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013346:Subarachnoid Space