TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Hossam Eldin Mahmoud Gouda AU - Ahmed Abdallah Soliman Elfiki , AU - Ashraf Hesham Tawfik Abouelnasr , AU - Mohammed Hussein Mohamed Ali , TI - Assessment of risk/benefit ratio of lumbar drain following surgical repair of cranial CSF fistulae : : A single blinded randomized controlled study / PY - 2017/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Hossam Eldin Mahmoud Gouda , KW - Cerebrospinal fluid KW - Leak KW - Lumbar drain N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Neurosurgery; Issued also as CD N2 - Cerebrospinal fluid leak is one of the most disturbing issues that face neurosurgeons. It may threaten patient general condition up to being fatal. Thorough neurological examination and proper investigations should be done to diagnose site of cerebrospinal fluid leak and other other pathologies. The study was conducted upon thirty patients suffered from cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea following head trauma, surgical operations or non-traumatic cases at department of neurosurgery in Cairo University Hospitals to evaluate the role of lumbar drain following surgical repair of cranial CSF fistulae ER -