Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid fistula through a congenitally patent facial nerve canal: incrimination of idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Otol Neurotol. 2009 Jan;30(1):123-4. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e318166188e.

Authors

Valérie Franco-Vidal¹, Gladson Porto Baretto, Jean-Rodolphe Vignes, Vincent Darrouzet

Affiliation

¹ Otolaryngology and Skull Base Surgery Department, University Hospital of Bordeaux, University Victor Ségalen Bordeaux 2, F-33000 France.

PMID: 18277307
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e318166188e

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Cerebrospinal Fluid / metabolism*
Ear, Middle / metabolism*
Facial Nerve / abnormalities*
Facial Nerve / physiopathology*
Fistula / pathology
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Petrous Bone / abnormalities
Pseudotumor Cerebri / pathology
Pseudotumor Cerebri / physiopathology*