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Erhan Çelikoğlu1, Jülide Hazneci1, Ali Fatih Ramazanoğlu1
1Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Clinic, Ministry of Health, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Abstract:
Endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) may rarely be complicated by intracranial complications; the most common of them is a cerebrospinal fluid fistula. Pneumocephalus as a complication of ESS is quite rare. Here, we presented a unique case of tension pneumocephalus causing brain herniation as a complication of ESS, to whom emergent craniotomy was performed.
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