[Two cases of colloid cysts of the third ventricle with nasal rhinorrhea]

Neurol Neurochir Pol. 1993 Jan-Feb;27(1):117-21.
[Article in Polish]

Abstract

The authors present 2 cases of tumours of third ventricle with intracranial hypertension and cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea. The cause of the CSF rhinorrhea most often was thinning of lamina ethmoidalis and dura mater and rarely intussusception of arachnoidea into the intrasellar space in patients with oval orifice for the stalk of pituitary body due to prolonged intracranial hypertension. Efficacious treatment of CSF rhinorrhea comprises not only removing of the tumor but also introducing the valve and in some cases tightening of the base of the anterior and middle fossa.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / physiopathology*
  • Brain / surgery
  • Brain Diseases / diagnosis
  • Brain Diseases / physiopathology*
  • Brain Diseases / surgery
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / diagnosis
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / physiopathology*
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / surgery
  • Craniotomy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Subarachnoid Space / diagnostic imaging
  • Subarachnoid Space / physiopathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed