| Literature DB >> 28559947 |
Eun Kyoung Choi1, Jin Kyoung Oh1, Sonya Youngju Park2, Ikdong Yoo1, Dong-Hyun Kim3, Yong-An Chung1.
Abstract
We herein present a case of a 29-year-old man with clear rhinorrhea, which persisted for 8 years following a myringotomy. After cotton pledgets were placed in several different regions of the nasal cavity, cisternography using Tc-99m DTPA was performed to measure the radioactivity of each pledget. Cisternography showed subtle uptake in the nasal cavity. However, intense uptake was detected in the pledget placed in the right eustachian tube orifice, where the pledget:serum count ratio was 10.3:1. The patient underwent duroplasty and cranioplasty, and the rhinorrhea resolved.Entities:
Keywords: Cerebrospinal fluid leak; Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea; Radionuclide imaging; Technetium Tc 99m pentetate
Year: 2015 PMID: 28559947 PMCID: PMC5429290 DOI: 10.1007/s13139-015-0389-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucl Med Mol Imaging ISSN: 1869-3474