Spontaneous Resolution of Tension Pneumocephalus Following Blunt Head Trauma

The authors present a case of tension pneumocephalus that occurred secondary to closed head injury and review the etiology and management of this relatively rare entity. This case was managed without invasive neurosurgical intervention, also somewhat rare for this condition.

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Autores principales: Tsau, Joshua, Mangal, Rohan, Ganti, Latha, Amico, Kendra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6716768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497454
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5027
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spelling pubmed-67167682019-09-06 Spontaneous Resolution of Tension Pneumocephalus Following Blunt Head Trauma Tsau, Joshua Mangal, Rohan Ganti, Latha Amico, Kendra Cureus Emergency Medicine The authors present a case of tension pneumocephalus that occurred secondary to closed head injury and review the etiology and management of this relatively rare entity. This case was managed without invasive neurosurgical intervention, also somewhat rare for this condition. Cureus 2019-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6716768/ /pubmed/31497454 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5027 Text en Copyright © 2019, Tsau et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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Tsau, Joshua
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Spontaneous Resolution of Tension Pneumocephalus Following Blunt Head Trauma
title Spontaneous Resolution of Tension Pneumocephalus Following Blunt Head Trauma
title_full Spontaneous Resolution of Tension Pneumocephalus Following Blunt Head Trauma
title_fullStr Spontaneous Resolution of Tension Pneumocephalus Following Blunt Head Trauma
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous Resolution of Tension Pneumocephalus Following Blunt Head Trauma
title_short Spontaneous Resolution of Tension Pneumocephalus Following Blunt Head Trauma
title_sort spontaneous resolution of tension pneumocephalus following blunt head trauma
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6716768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497454
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5027
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