Association between cerebrospinal fluid leak and meningitis after skull base surgery

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 689-693

  Horowitz, Gilad ^a   Fliss, Dan M ^a   Margalit, Nevo ^a   Wasserzug, Oshri ^a   Gil, Ziv ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

CSF leak; Endoscopic surgery; Infection; Meningitis; Skull base surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIQUORRHEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OTORRHEA; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENDOSCOPY; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA; FEMALE; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MENINGITIS; MENINGOCELE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE CAVITY; NOSE TUMOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SKULL BASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OTORRHEA; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENDOSCOPY; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA, OLFACTORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MENINGITIS; MENINGOCELE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NOSE NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SKULL BASE;

EID: 84856377571     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599811411534     Document Type: Article

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