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Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea and unilateral nasal polyposis: a case report
E Gallina1, O Gallo, G V Bottai
1II ENT Clinic, University of Florence, Italy.
Auris, Nasus, Larynx
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
We report a case of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea and unilateral polyposis in a 53-year-old woman. The clinical features, tomograms, and CT scan with Metrizamide infusion are examined. The analysis of this case evidences that: 1) A CSF can occur also after a long time (3 years) following a head injury; 2) CT cisternography with Metrizamide can demonstrate a leakage, but not always the fluid egress from the intracranial cavity; and 3) A CSF rhinorrhea may be the primary cause and not an occasional association or complication of a reactive phlogistic nasal disease.