Spontaneous chronic epidural pneumocephalus resulting from hyperpneumatization of the cranium causing mass effect: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1384-1386

  Park, Paul ^a   Chandler, William F ^b   Telian, Steven A ^b   Doran, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c Midwest Neurosurgery PC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic; Epidural; Hyperpneumatization of cranium; Mass effect; Pneumocephalus; Spontaneous pneumocephalus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DURA MATER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUSITIS; SKULL; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE;

AIR; BONE DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; SKULL; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031781780     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199806000-00123     Document Type: Article

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