Disease relevance of Pneumocephalus

• The mechanism of pneumocephalus formation in patients with CSF fistulas [1].
• Prophylactic administration of ceftriaxone for the prevention of meningitis after traumatic pneumocephalus: results of a clinical trial [2].
• CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study do not substantiate the efficacy of ceftriaxone used in the prevention of meningitis in patients with traumatic pneumocephalus after mild head injury or in any specific subgroup of these patients [2].
• We report two unusual cases of frontal osteomas complicated by rare manifestations such as intracranial mucocele, CSF leak, pneumocephalus and bacterial meningitis [3].
• We present the unusual case of a patient who experienced a CSF leak and subsequent pneumocephalus several years after transphenoidal surgery and radiation treatment for an ACTH secreting pituitary tumor [4].

High impact information on Pneumocephalus

• Nitrous oxide anesthesia has been implicated as contributing to the development of delayed tension pneumocephalus following surgery performed in the sitting position [5].
• Subarachnoid pneumocephalus from epidural steroid injection [6].
• Tension pneumocephalus following mask CPAP [7].
• Pneumocephalus due to nasopharyngeal carcinoma: case report [8].
• The mass effect of a tension subdural pneumatoma was demonstrable as shift in the midline structures when the air was unilateral, whereas an asymptomatic pneumocephalus showed no actual mass effect [9].

Chemical compound and disease context of Pneumocephalus

• Nitrous oxide and intraoperative tension pneumocephalus [10].
• Otogenic pneumocephalus management with butyl 2-cyanoacrylate [11].
• Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in a case of traumatic intracerebral pneumocephalus are evaluated with metrizamide computed tomographic cisternography [12].

Anatomical context of Pneumocephalus

• Careful search of the skull base is important in post-traumatic pneumocephalus to identify a potential site of CSF leak [13].

Gene context of Pneumocephalus

• Tension pneumocephalus and intermittent drainage of ventricular CSF [14].
• Extradural tension pneumocephalus after posterior cranial vault remodeling for ventriculoperitoneal shunt-induced craniosynostosis [15].
• Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea and pneumocephalus following temporal lobectomy for epilepsy [16].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Pneumocephalus

• Nitrous oxide and the prevention of tension pneumocephalus after craniotomy [17].
• We report a case of spontaneous tension pneumocephalus which occurred 6 years after radiotherapy for a nasopharyngeal carcinoma [18].

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