Will cerebrospinal fluid flow after skull fracture healing

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The brain plays a leading role in our body, and what worries many patients is whether there will be other phenomena after skull fracture healing, such as cerebrospinal fluid or infection. Now let's talk about whether cerebrospinal fluid will flow after skull fracture healing.

Will cerebrospinal fluid flow after skull fracture healing

First: cerebrospinal fluid cavity and extracranial communication, cerebrospinal fluid leakage is called cerebrospinal fluid leakage. Headache caused by continuous loss of cerebrospinal fluid is often treated by internal medicine. Patients with leakage more than one month can be treated by surgery. The main symptom is the outflow of clear fluid from ear and nose after craniocerebral trauma. According to the etiology, CSF leakage can be divided into traumatic, accidental, iatrogenic and spontaneous. Among them, external injury is the main, and spontaneity is rare.

Second, cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea is often caused by middle cranial fossa fracture involving tympanic cavity. After the fracture of middle cranial fossa, the meninges of the upper middle ear are torn and the tympanic membrane is ruptured, which can cause cerebrospinal fluid leakage from the external auditory canal to form cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea. Otorrhea and rhinorrhea mainly indicate the possibility of skull base fracture, and because infection may spread from ear or nose to meninges, there may be a risk of meningitis.

Third: cerebrospinal fluid leakage is due to the skull fracture at the same time tearing the dura mater and arachnoid, so that cerebrospinal fluid from the fracture seam through the nasal cavity, external auditory canal or open wound outflow, so that the cranial cavity and external communication, forming a leak, the air can also leak into the intracranial retrograde fistula, resulting in pneumocranium. Fracture of middle cranial fossa floor may damage the superior wall of sphenoid sinus and cause cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea. No matter the middle fossa or posterior fossa fracture of petrous bone, as long as the middle ear cavity is injured, bloody cerebrospinal fluid can enter the tympanic cavity.

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If you look at it this way, cerebrospinal fluid is likely to appear after a skull fracture, but not every patient will. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can only be caused by mistakes in skull surgery. In general, patients can rest assured that the probability of this phenomenon is particularly small.