Novel treatment of traumatic CSF rhinnorhea using titanium mesh and onlay graft.
Post-traumatic rhinnorhea due to large frontobasal fractures remains a difficult entity to treat. The authors report the case of a 9-year-old boy who had persistent CSF rhinnorhea due to extensive frontobasal fractures and who was managed with transcranial extradural surgery with titanium mesh placement and only pedicled pericranial flap.
Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi - 110 029, India.
Pankaj
P
Ailawadhi
Deepak
D
Agrawal
A K
AK
Mahapatra