ACUTE TRAUMATIC LIQUORRHEA
- 1 December 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 41 (5), 551-556
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0404.1965.tb04744.x
Abstract
Among 82 cases of acute traumatic cerebrospinal fluid liquor-rhea, there were 35 cases of otorrhea and 47 cases of rhinorrhea. The incidence of liquorrhea in a consecutive series of 1172 relatively severe craniocerebral injuries was 6%. The incidence of meningitis complicating liqueorrhea was 17% in the otorrhea group and 23% in the rhinorrhea group. The mortality rate from meningitis was 3, and 4%, respectively. In conservatively treated cases of otorrhea and rhinorrhea the infection morbidity was only 9 and 18% respectively, the mortality rate 0 and 6% respectively.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhœa in closed head injuriesBritish Journal of Surgery, 1954
- Rhinorrhea and PneumocephalusJournal of Neurosurgery, 1954