['Cerebral running nose': cerebrospinal rhinorrhea].
Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea was diagnosed in two patients, a man of 19 and a woman of 45 years old. This is a relatively rare phenomenon and clinically often difficult to differentiate from nasal secretions caused by a rhinopathy. Although cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistulae usually are of traumatic origin as in the first patient, they can also be caused by a congenital malformation as in the second one or by a condition with chronic increased intracranial pressure. With adequate treatment the prognosis is good. CSF can be identified very specifically by beta-transferrin determination.
de Jong
T H
TH
Afd. Neurochirurgie, Academisch Ziekenhuis, Nijmegen.
Hiel
J A
JA
van der Spek
J A
JA
Lamers
K J
KJ
D000328:Adult; D002559:Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D004677:Encephalocele / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000150:complications; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
'Cerebrale loopneus': rhinorrhoea cerebrospinalis.