Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea in a patient with pseudotumor cerebri

J Neuroimaging. 1998 Jan;8(1):41-2. doi: 10.1111/jon19988141.

Abstract

Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea developed in a 46-year-old woman with pseudotumor cerebri. The origin of the fistula, the use of contrast computed tomographic cisternography to evaluate this lesion, and its surgical treatment are discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / diagnostic imaging
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / etiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Pseudotumor Cerebri / complications*
  • Pseudotumor Cerebri / diagnostic imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed