Symptomatic Pneumocephalus after Lumbar Disc Surgery: a Case Report

Symptomatic pneumocephalus is frequently seen after traumatic fracture of the skull base bone. However, it has rarely been reported after spinal surgery and its mechanism has not been fully explained. In this paper, we present a 30 year old male patient who had lumbar discectomy due to a symptomatic...

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Autores principales: Kizilay, Zahir, Yilmaz, Ali, Ismailoglu, Ozgur
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Institute of Immunobiology and Human Genetics 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4877774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27275212
http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2015.028
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description Symptomatic pneumocephalus is frequently seen after traumatic fracture of the skull base bone. However, it has rarely been reported after spinal surgery and its mechanism has not been fully explained. In this paper, we present a 30 year old male patient who had lumbar discectomy due to a symptomatic midline lumbar disc herniation. He had developed symptomatic pneumocephalus after the lumbar disc surgery associated with application of a vacuum suction device. We present and discuss our patient in the light of the literatures.
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spelling pubmed-48777742016-06-06 Symptomatic Pneumocephalus after Lumbar Disc Surgery: a Case Report Kizilay, Zahir Yilmaz, Ali Ismailoglu, Ozgur Open Access Maced J Med Sci Case Report Symptomatic pneumocephalus is frequently seen after traumatic fracture of the skull base bone. However, it has rarely been reported after spinal surgery and its mechanism has not been fully explained. In this paper, we present a 30 year old male patient who had lumbar discectomy due to a symptomatic midline lumbar disc herniation. He had developed symptomatic pneumocephalus after the lumbar disc surgery associated with application of a vacuum suction device. We present and discuss our patient in the light of the literatures. Institute of Immunobiology and Human Genetics 2015-03-15 2015-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4877774/ /pubmed/27275212 http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2015.028 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Zahir Kizilay, Ali Yilmaz, Ozgur Ismailoglu. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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