Table 2.
The following table shows 36 cases of CSF rhinorrhoea
| NUMBER | PERCENTAGE (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) AGE | a) <50YEARS | 26 | 72.22 | ||
| b) >50 YEARS | 10 | 27.77 | |||
| 2) SEX | a) MALE | 20 | 55.55 | ||
| b) FEMALE | 16 | 44.44 | |||
| 3) ETIOLOGY |
a) TRAUMA (TOTAL): -HEAD INJURY(HI) |
18 18 |
50 50 |
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b) NON TRAUMATIC - SPONTANEOUS(S) - INFECTIOUS(I) |
16 2 |
44 6 |
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| 4) SITE | RIGHT | LEFT | |||
| a)CRIBRIFORM PLATE | 21 | 58.33 | 16 | 5 | |
| b) SPHENOID | 6 | 16.66 | |||
| c)FOVEA ETHMOID | 4 | 11.11 | 3 | 1 | |
| d) FRONTAL SINUS | 2 | 5.55 | 1 | 1 | |
| e) MULTIPLE SITES | 3 | 8.35 | |||
| 5)MANAGEMNT | NUMBER | PERCENTAGE | TRAUMA | NON TRAUMA | |
| a)CONSERVATIVE | 12 | 33.33 | 8(HI) | 4(S) | |
| b)OPEN CRANIOTOMY | 5 | 13.88 | 5(HI) | ||
| c)ENDOSCOPIC REPAIR | 19 | 52.77 | 5(HI) | 12(S) + 2(I) | |
| 6)FLAPS USED | HADAD FLAP | MIDDLE TURBINATE FLAP | FREE FLAP | MULTILAYER FLAP | |
| - CRIBRIFORM PLATE | 8 | 2 | |||
| - SPHENOID | 2 | 3 | |||
| - FRONTAL SINUS | 1 | ||||
| - FOVEA ETHMOID | 2 | 1 | |||