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Images in Clinical Practice Indian Pediatrics 2000;37: 678 |
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CSF rhinorrhea is a cause of recurrent meningitis. An eight-year male child had head injury with frontal bone fracture. This was followed by the development of meningitis within a few weeks. The child was asympto-matic for three years when he again developed meningitis. There was history of minimal clear discharge from the right nostril suggestive of CSF rhinorrhea. A high resolution CT scan demonstrated a fracture of the right cribriform plate. A Technetium-99 nuclear scan revealed the presence of the isotope in the nose, indicating CSF leak into the nose (Fig. 1) thus confirming the presence of CSF rhinorrhea. A functional endoscopic sinus surgery can repair the cribriform plate fracture. Vedavati Subramanyam,
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