Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea and recurrent meningitis
Pappas DG;Hammerschlag PE;Hammerschlag M;;
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America1993Vol. 17pp. -
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Abstract
Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea is the result of transdural communication between the subarachnoid space and the skull base. A transdural fistula may originate from the anterior, middle, or posterior cranial compartments. All skull-base sites of leakage potentially lead to the nasal cavity. Recurrent …