Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea: A Case Report

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea refers to the loss of CSF through the nasal cavity. Its causes can be classified as either spontaneous or non-spontaneous. Spontaneous causes of CSF rhinorrhea include congenital anatomical defects and are extremely rare, accounting for less than 4% of reported c...

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Autores principales: Boppana, Hemanth Krishna, Welch, Tonya, Calderon, Chrystal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7449646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32864231
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9401
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description Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea refers to the loss of CSF through the nasal cavity. Its causes can be classified as either spontaneous or non-spontaneous. Spontaneous causes of CSF rhinorrhea include congenital anatomical defects and are extremely rare, accounting for less than 4% of reported cases. Following failure of conservative management, definitive treatment most commonly involves an endoscopic transsphenoidal repair of the defect. We present a case of spontaneous CSF rhinorrhea in a previously well 52-year-old female, which required surgical intervention due to failure of conservative management.
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spelling pubmed-74496462020-08-28 Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea: A Case Report Boppana, Hemanth Krishna Welch, Tonya Calderon, Chrystal Cureus Neurology Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea refers to the loss of CSF through the nasal cavity. Its causes can be classified as either spontaneous or non-spontaneous. Spontaneous causes of CSF rhinorrhea include congenital anatomical defects and are extremely rare, accounting for less than 4% of reported cases. Following failure of conservative management, definitive treatment most commonly involves an endoscopic transsphenoidal repair of the defect. We present a case of spontaneous CSF rhinorrhea in a previously well 52-year-old female, which required surgical intervention due to failure of conservative management. Cureus 2020-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7449646/ /pubmed/32864231 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9401 Text en Copyright © 2020, Boppana 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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Boppana, Hemanth Krishna
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Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea: A Case Report
title Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea: A Case Report
title_full Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea: A Case Report
title_fullStr Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea: A Case Report
title_short Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea: A Case Report
title_sort spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7449646/
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