Pneumocephalus Presenting as Sudden Thunderclap Headache

Pneumocephalus is a rare condition characterized by the presence of gas within the cranial cavity. This gas arises either from a trauma, tumor, surgical procedure, or occasionally from infection. Pneumocephalus secondary to chronic otitis media is an extremely rare phenomenon. We describe here a 70-...

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Autores principales: Guleria, Vivek S., Sharma, Ajay, Sharda, Chetan, Kumar, Virendra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114285
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_25_15
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author Guleria, Vivek S.
Sharma, Ajay
Sharda, Chetan
Kumar, Virendra
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description Pneumocephalus is a rare condition characterized by the presence of gas within the cranial cavity. This gas arises either from a trauma, tumor, surgical procedure, or occasionally from infection. Pneumocephalus secondary to chronic otitis media is an extremely rare phenomenon. We describe here a 70-year-old male, a known case of chronic suppurative otitis media who presented with sudden onset severe thunderclap headache and was eventually diagnosed as pneumocephalus.
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spelling pubmed-56520972017-11-07 Pneumocephalus Presenting as Sudden Thunderclap Headache Guleria, Vivek S. Sharma, Ajay Sharda, Chetan Kumar, Virendra Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Pneumocephalus is a rare condition characterized by the presence of gas within the cranial cavity. This gas arises either from a trauma, tumor, surgical procedure, or occasionally from infection. Pneumocephalus secondary to chronic otitis media is an extremely rare phenomenon. We describe here a 70-year-old male, a known case of chronic suppurative otitis media who presented with sudden onset severe thunderclap headache and was eventually diagnosed as pneumocephalus. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5652097/ /pubmed/29114285 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_25_15 Text en Copyright: © 2017 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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title_short Pneumocephalus Presenting as Sudden Thunderclap Headache
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114285
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