Delayed symptomatic cerebrospinal fluid leakage after spine surgery with an intraoperative occult dural tear: An institutional experience and literature review

Background: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage is a hazardous complication after spine surgeries. Although most CSF leakages occur because of intraoperative dural tears, there are several reports that delayed CSF leakage occurred with undetected dural tears during surgery, which is known as occult du...

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Main Authors: Shinji Kotaka, Yasushi Fujiwara, Ryo Ota, Hideki Manabe, Nobuo Adachi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751920304096