Cerebrospinal fluid leakage complicating skull base fractures: Analysis of 81 cases

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 64-71

  Yilmazlar, Selcuk ^a   Arslan, Erhan ^a   Kocaeli, Hasan ^a   Dogan, Seref ^a   Aksoy, Kaya ^a   Korfali, Ender ^a   Doygun, Muammer ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid leakage; Complication; Skull base fracture

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; METRIZAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CHILD; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGITIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL FRACTURE, BASILAR; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27944489964     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-005-0396-3     Document Type: Review

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