Risk factors for postoperative cerebrospinal fluid leak and meningitis after expanded endoscopic endonasal surgery

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2015
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Abstract
Postoperative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak is a serious complication of transsphenoidal surgery, which can lead to meningitis and often requires reparative surgery. We sought to identify preoperative risk factors for CSF leaks and meningitis. We reviewed 98 consecutive expanded endoscopic endonasa …
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Authors Ivan ME;Iorgulescu JB;El-Sayed I;McDermott MW;Parsa AT;Pletcher SD;Jahangiri A;Wagner J;Aghi MK;;
Journal journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the neurosurgical society of australasia
Year 2015
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25439754
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National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE review humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine research support non-u.s. gov't postoperative complications / epidemiology meningitis / epidemiology pmid:25439754 doi:10.1016/j.jocn.2014.08.009 michael e ivan j bryan iorgulescu manish k aghi body mass index* brain neoplasms / epidemiology brain neoplasms / surgery* cerebrospinal fluid leak / epidemiology cerebrospinal fluid leak / etiology* meningitis / etiology* postoperative complications / etiology* sphenoid sinus / surgery* transanal endoscopic surgery / adverse effects* transanal endoscopic surgery / statistics & numerical data

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