Affiliation:
1. Department of Neurosurgery, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt
2. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Abstract
The management of symptomatic chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) is surgical evacuation and prognosis in most cases is good. Tension pneumocephalus is the presence of air under pressure in the intracranial cavity. A case of tension pneumocephalus developing as a complication of burr hole evacuation of CSDH is illustrated. In this case, tension pneumocephalus was managed by reopening the wound and saline irrigation with a subdural drain placement. Considering this case report and after a careful review of the literature, the physiopathology, diagnosis, and treatment of this complication are highlighted in the article.
Publisher
Open Exploration Publishing
Subject
General Medicine,General Medicine,General Materials Science,General Medicine,General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science,Building and Construction,General Medicine,General Medicine,General Medicine,General Medicine
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