Nontraumatic skull base defects with spontaneous CSF rhinorrhea and arachnoid herniation: Imaging findings and correlation with endoscopic sinus surgery in 27 patients

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 542-549

  Schuknecht, Bernhard ^a,d   Simmen, D ^b   Briner, H R ^b   Holzmann, D ^c  

^a MRI Medical Radiological Institute Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b KLINIK HIRSLANDEN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d MRI Institute   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; IOPAMIDOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOID HERNIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID; BRAIN HERNIA; CISTERNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ETHMOID SINUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SKULL BASE; SKULL DEFECT; SPHENOID SINUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARANASAL SINUSES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL BASE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41149164298     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0840     Document Type: Article

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