Pneumocephalus resulting from chest infection complicated by pleural-subarachnoid fistula

Radiol Case Rep. 2021 Jun 8;16(8):2012-2016. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2021.04.043. eCollection 2021 Aug.

Abstract

Pleural-subarachnoid fistula is a rare type of Cerebrospinal fluid fistula with less than 60 cases reported in the literature. Here we present a case of 55-year-old female patient, known case of acute myeloid leukemia on chemotherapy, who developed pleural-subarachnoid fistula due to invasive atypical apical lung fungal infection. All of the reported cases in the literature were secondary to trauma or post-surgery. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of pleural-subarachnoid fistula developed as sequela of fungal infection.

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