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Traumatic subarachnoid-pleural fistula in a child. A case report
A A Salerni1, T E Kuivila, D M Drvaric
1Department of Neurosurgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
A seven-year-old girl sustained a gunshot wound to the chest and spine. Evaluation of a persistent pleural effusion demonstrated a subarachnoid-pleural fistula. Surgical closure of the dural defect resulted in resolution of the fistula. Traumatic subarachnoid-pleural fistulae are rare. The diagnosis is reached by an awareness of fistula formation from penetrating or blunt trauma to the chest.