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Traumatic CSF fistula presenting late as a middle ear effusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

J. T. Brandrick*
Affiliation:
Birmingham
*
J. Brandrick, Senior ENT Registrar, Dudley Road Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH.

Abstract

CSF otorrhoea is not uncommon following head injury but late presentation is rare. In the case described an unsuspected temporal bone fracture presented after an interval of ten years with a conductive deafness due to fluid in the middle ear simulating serous otitis media.

Type
Clinical Records
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1989

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