Tension pneumocephalus causing brain herniation after endoscopic sinus surgery

Endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) may rarely be complicated by intracranial complications; the most common of them is a cerebrospinal fluid fistula. Pneumocephalus as a complication of ESS is quite rare. Here, we presented a unique case of tension pneumocephalus causing brain herniation as a complicati...

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Autores principales: Çelikoğlu, Erhan, Hazneci, Jülide, Ramazanoğlu, Ali Fatih
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4849308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27366266
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.179646
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author Çelikoğlu, Erhan
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description Endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) may rarely be complicated by intracranial complications; the most common of them is a cerebrospinal fluid fistula. Pneumocephalus as a complication of ESS is quite rare. Here, we presented a unique case of tension pneumocephalus causing brain herniation as a complication of ESS, to whom emergent craniotomy was performed.
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spelling pubmed-48493082016-07-01 Tension pneumocephalus causing brain herniation after endoscopic sinus surgery Çelikoğlu, Erhan Hazneci, Jülide Ramazanoğlu, Ali Fatih Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) may rarely be complicated by intracranial complications; the most common of them is a cerebrospinal fluid fistula. Pneumocephalus as a complication of ESS is quite rare. Here, we presented a unique case of tension pneumocephalus causing brain herniation as a complication of ESS, to whom emergent craniotomy was performed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4849308/ /pubmed/27366266 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.179646 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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