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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Cerebrospinal fluid leak post COVID-19 nasopharyngeal swab for a patient with idiopathic intracranial hypertension: a case report

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J Surg Case Rep. 2021 Oct 28;2021(10):rjab456. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjab456. eCollection 2021 Oct.

ABSTRACT

Coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is an infectious disease that led to a global pandemic. In this article, we reported a case of a young women who is known to have idiopathic intracranial hypertension, with iatrogenic skull base injury from a nasopharyngeal swab. Her case was complicated by meningitis.

PMID:34729169 | PMC:PMC8557649 | DOI:10.1093/jscr/rjab456

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