Comprehensive algorithm for skull base dural lesion and cerebriospinal fluid fistula diagnosis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 991-999

  Meco, Cem ^a   Oberascher, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Cerebrospinal fluid fistula; Diagnosis; Dural lesion; Skull base

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BETA TRACE PROTEIN TEST; BETA2 TRANSFERRIN TEST; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CISTERNOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DURA MATER; ENDOSCOPY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT INFECTION; RELIABILITY; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; SODIUM FLUORESCEIN TEST; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2942562290     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200406000-00007     Document Type: Article

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