Pneumocephalus resulting from chest infection complicated by pleural-subarachnoid fistula
Noura Alnajdi1, Abdullah Darwish2, Amjad Alharbi3
1Radiology resident, Radiology Departement, King Abdullah Medical city, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract:
Pleural-subarachnoid fistula is a rare type of Cerebrospinal fluid fistula with less than 60 cases reported in the literature. Here we present a case of 55-year-old female patient, known case of acute myeloid leukemia on chemotherapy, who developed pleural-subarachnoid fistula due to invasive atypical apical lung fungal infection. All of the reported cases in the literature were secondary to trauma or post-surgery. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of pleural-subarachnoid fistula developed as sequela of fungal infection.
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