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Multidisciplinary Approach to CSF Leak

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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks can be a complex medical problem for patients and often require a multidisciplinary approach for optimal outcomes. Of the four broad categories of CSF leaks including congenital, traumatic, neoplastic, or spontaneous, the spontaneous CSF leaks can be the most difficult to diagnose and treat. Spontaneous CSF leaks are thought to be a sequela of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) which is a process where patients exhibit signs and symptoms of increased intracranial pressure without a space occupying lesion within the intracranial cavity evident on imaging. Treatment involves both surgery and long term medical management and follow-up. These patients can often require the care of otolaryngologists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, ophthalmologists, and possibly endocrinologists and bariatric surgeons working in a multidisciplinary fashion for control of their disease without recurrence of a CSF leak.

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  1. University of Cincinatti, Cincinatti, OH, USA

    Katie Phillps

  2. Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Peter H. Hwang & Zara M. Patel

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, King Fahd Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Abdulaziz A. AlQahtani

  2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Insubria, Varese, Varese, Italy

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Phillps, K., Hwang, P.H., Patel, Z.M. (2022). Multidisciplinary Approach to CSF Leak. In: AlQahtani, A.A., Castelnuovo, P., Casiano, R., Carrau, R.L. (eds) CSF Rhinorrhea. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94781-1_12

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