TY - JOUR
AU - Ganbo, Tetsuya
AB - Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea through the cribriform plate fistula cured by endonasal surgery: Transseptal submucoperiosteal obliteration of the olfactory cleft KEN-ICHI HISAMATSU, MD, and TETSUYA GANBO, MD, Tamaho-cho, Yamanashi-ken, Japan olfactory function of the normal site. To a rhinolo- In otorhinolaryngology clinics cerebrospinal fluid gist, this endonasal procedure offers the advantage rhinorrhea (CSFR) is occasionally seen in patients of preserving the olfaction of the normal site with a with runny noses. Although nontraumatic CSFR has a low incidence, it should be considered in the minor procedure developed from rhinoplasty. differential diagnosis of a runny nose because of the risk of recurrent meningitis. Spontaneous CSFR, CASE REPORT which has no demonstrable finding such as intracra- The patient was a 69-year-old woman who had noticed nial space-occupying lesions (i.e., tumors or hydro- a watery nasal discharge of the right side that had gradu- ally increased in amount since 1988. She visited the allergy cephalus), is a very rare type of nontraumatic CSFR clinic of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of Ya- and might be caused by focal atrophy of unknown manashi Medical University Hospital on Aug. 4, 1992, pathophysiology. after allergic rhinitis was diagnosed by an otolaryngologist The cribriform plate is a 
TI - Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea Through the Cribriform Plate Fistula Cured by Endonasal Surgery: Transseptal Submucoperiosteal Obliteration of the Olfactory Cleft
JO - Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
DO - 10.1016/s0194-59989570032-3
DA - 1995-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/spontaneous-cerebrospinal-fluid-rhinorrhea-through-the-cribriform-XASdx4fxQx
SP - 822
EP - 825
VL - 113
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -