[Diagnosis and therapy experience of cerebrospinal rhinorrhea in 15 cases].
OBJECTIVE
To research the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrospinal rhinorrhea.


METHODS
Fifteen cerebrospinal rhinorrhea cases were retrospectively analyzed.


RESULTS
All 15 cases were cured in follow-up from 3 months to 5 years. Different therapeutic approaches were adopted in these cases: conservative therapeutic (4 cases), external nose approach (7 cases), and endoscopic approach (4 cases).


CONCLUSIONS
There are several advantages in adopting endoscopic method such as operating simply, small wound, fixing cerebrospinal rhinorrhea position accurately, and fast post-operation recovering. In some cases adopting external nose approach meanwhile can make up the shortcoming of endoscope and improving operation success probability.
Lou
Weihua
W
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China. Louweihua2005@sina.com
Sun
Huiru
H
Wu
Yuying
Y
Zhu
Honghai
H
Yang
Yang
Y
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002559:Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies