ACUTE TRAUMATIC LIQUORRHEA

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.