[Treatment of post-traumatic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea with lumbar drainage (author's transl)].
Three patients with CSF-rhinorrhea following frontobasal skull and brain injury were treated with lumbar CSF drainage. Rhinorrhea was successfully stopped in one patient few hours after onset of the drainage while a pneumatocephalus developed in each of the remaining patients during the first post-trauma week. We believe that this latter occurrence was due to depression of intra-cranial pressure as a result of the drainage. As a further consequence of this, risk of intracranial infection increased in association with a hypoliquorrhea, and led to a tentorial pressure cone in one of the patients.
D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002559:Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D004322:Drainage; D006801:Humans; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Die Problematik der Behandlung der Liquorfistel bei frontobasalem Schädel-Hirntrauma mittels Lumbaldrainage.