title: [CSF otorrhea: case report and management].
abstract: Mr G, sixty-seven years old, was admitted to our hospital for a liver transplant. He suffered from a cirrhosis due to an HBV infection, complicated by an hepatocellular carcinoma. During the perioperative care, a left otorrhea was discovered. According to the clinical history, this otorrhea had been present for six weeks and followed the completion of a myringotomy. The myringotomy had been performed with a view to place a transtympanic ventilation tube for the treatment of a serous otitis media inducing a conductive hearingloss. Clinical, biological, and radiological explorations revealed a CSF leak caused by the fact that the myringotomy had been done in a temporal meningo-encephalocele. A conservative treatment allowed to stop the otorrhea. We present a short discussion about temporal meningoencephalocele and, more generally, about CSF otorrhea.
authors: Service d'ORL, CHU de Liège, Belgique.
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Salmon
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Demanez
authors: Ph
authors: P
authors: Lefèbvre
mesh_terms: D000151:Acinetobacter Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D040981:Acinetobacter baumannii / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology; D000368:Aged; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D002558:Cerebrospinal Fluid Otorrhea / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D003638:Deafness / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects; D008297:Male; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy