Severe craniofacial fractures with frontobasal involvement and cerebrospinal fluid fistula: Indications for surgical repair

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 559-563

  Rocchi, Giovanni ^a   Caroli, Emanuela ^a,c   Belli, Evaristo ^a   Salvati, Maurizio ^b   Cimatti, Marco ^a   Delfini, Roberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid fistula; Fracture; Head injury; Management; Meningitis; Rhinorrhea; Surgical repair

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY; DURA MATER; ENCEPHALOCELE; FACE FRACTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOSMIA; MALE; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPTIC NERVE; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKULL; SKULL FRACTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; DECISION TREES; FACIAL BONES; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL BONE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT SELECTION; SKULL; SKULL FRACTURE, BASILAR; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20344403037     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2004.07.047     Document Type: Article

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