[Gammacisternography and fronto-basal head injuries (author's transl)]

The authors give the results of 65 radioisotopic cisternographies for suspected rhinorrheas in frontal basal head injuries. Indium 111-DTPA lombar injection allows the investigation at least for 48 hours. After localisating the CSF fistulae, the gammacisternography permits us to study associated CSF circulation anomalies. Results and discussion give the correlation between positive tests and surgical findings. The best successful conditions of exploration are enough activity and a fluent clinical leakage of CSF. Nasal coton pledgets improve the success of the exploration.