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Role of Lumbar Drain in CSF Leak Management

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Skull base surgery implies sometimes the occurrence of CSF leak. The use of lumbar drain as a preventative measure or after-the-fact treatment has been used in a very variable fashion. We review in this chapter the principles, rationale, and techniques in utilizing lumbar drainage in the setting of preoperative skull base surgery.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

    Stephanie H. Chen & Jacques J. Morcos

  2. Department of Otolaryngology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA

    Jean Anderson Eloy

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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

    Paolo Castelnuovo

  3. Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

    Roy Casiano

  4. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

    Ricardo L. Carrau

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Chen, S.H., Eloy, J.A., Morcos, J.J. (2022). Role of Lumbar Drain in CSF Leak Management. 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_29

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