Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53533#.VMdOsSzQrzE Author(s) Reshma Hanwate , Vandana Thorawade , Mohan Jagade , Anoop Attakil , Kartik Parelkar , Madhavi Pandare , R. V. Natraj , Rajesh Kar Affiliation(s) Department of ENT, Grant Government Medical College & Sir J J Hospital, Mumbai, India . ABSTRACT Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea with encephalocele restricted to the sphenoid sinus is rare clinical finding. As of today, only 17 cases encephalocele protruding through the Sternberg’s canal and extending into the lateral recess of sphenoid sinus, have been described in literature. Patients presenting with this special clinical entity usually do not have any history of trauma, tumour or iatrogenic injury. Thus the lesions are considered to originate from a congenital bony defect in the lateral wall of the sphenoid sinus, first described by Sternberg in 1888 as ...
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