KEROS TYPE 3 OLFACTORY FOSSA: A CASE REPORT
Journal Title: Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 17
Abstract
A 45 year old lady presented with spontaneous onset CSF rhinorrhoea. There was no history of any head injury, nasal surgery or past history of any intra-cranial tumour. Clinical procedures like CSF analysis and CT brain were done and was diagnosed as a case with keros type 3 olfactory fossa with a small hole in right cribriform plate. Later MR cisternography was performed for confirmation. Olfactory fossa is a variable depression in the cribriform plate that is bounded medially by the perpendicular plate of ethmoid and laterally by the lateral lamella. It contain olfactory nerves and a small artery.
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Feroz Hussain, Mir Alam Siddique
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