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Pneumocephalus: a case report and review of article

M Abadian Sharifabad1, C Gianatiempo, S Gharibshahi

  • 1Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Englewood, NJ 07631, USA. mashrif@yahoo.com

International Journal of Clinical Practice
|May 18, 2006
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A 50-year-old woman with a history of ventriculopleural shunt placement, presented with nausea, vomiting, fever, respiratory distress and altered mental status. Computerised tomography scan of head revealed presence of air in the ventricles. Source of air was most probably an episode of resolved spontaneous pneumothorax, as no pneumothorax was present in the admission chest X-ray. Shunt revision was planned emergently, and broad-spectrum antibiotics were started. The patient recovered and was discharged in her usual state of health.

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