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Case Reports
. 2016 Jul-Sep;11(3):309-10.
doi: 10.4103/1793-5482.179646.

Tension pneumocephalus causing brain herniation after endoscopic sinus surgery

Erhan Çelikoğlu  1 , Jülide Hazneci  1 , Ali Fatih Ramazanoğlu  1
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Tension pneumocephalus causing brain herniation after endoscopic sinus surgery

Erhan Çelikoğlu et al. Asian J Neurosurg. 2016 Jul-Sep.

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.

Keywords: Brain herniation; craniotomy; endoscopic sinus surgery; tension pneumocephalus.

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Preoperative computed tomography revealing bifrontal pneumocephalus (a and b). Postoperative computed tomography obtained on the 9th day revealing a complete resolution of the pneumocephalus (c and d)
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