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ID Design 2012/DOOEL Skopje
Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences.

http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2015.028

Case Report

 

 

Symptomatic Pneumocephalus after Lumbar Disc Surgery: a Case Report

 

Zahir Kizilay1, Ali Yilmaz1, Ozgur Ismailoglu2

1Adnan Menderes University, Medical Faculty, Neurosurgery, Aytepe Campus, Aydin 09100, Turkey; 2Süleyman Demirel University, Neurosurgery, 32260 Isparta, Turkey


 

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Symptomatic pneumocephalus is frequently seen after traumatic fracture of the skull base bone. However, it has rarely been reported after spinal surgery and its mechanism has not been fully explained. In this paper, we present a 30 year old male patient who had lumbar discectomy due to a symptomatic midline lumbar disc herniation. He had developed symptomatic pneumocephalus after the lumbar disc surgery associated with application of a vacuum suction device. We present and discuss our patient in the light of the literatures.


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Citation: Kizilay Z, Yilmaz A, Ismailoglu O. Symptomatic Pneumocephalus after Lumbar Disc Surgery: a Case Report. OA Maced J Med Sci. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2015.028
Key words: Lumbar disc surgery; Dura tear; Cerebrospinal fluid leakage; Vaccum suction device; Pneumocephalus.
*Correspondence: Dr. Zahir Kizilay. Adnan Menderes University, Medical Faculty, Neurosurgery, Aytepe Campus, Aydin 09100, Turkey. E-Mail: zahirkizilay@hotmail.com
Received: 20-Jan-2015; Revised: 09-Feb-2015; Accepted: 10-Feb-2015; Online first: 16-Feb-2015
Copyright: © 2015 Zahir Kizilay, Ali Yilmaz, Ozgur Ismailoglu. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
 

 

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