Table II.
The clinicopathological features of 13 patients with post-op CSF leakage.
| Case no | Age | Gender | Subtype | Tumour size (mm) |
Knosp grade | Surgical technique of intraop CSF leakage |
Treatment of postop
leakage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | F | NF | 38.5 | IV | Gelatin foam | Semireclining + LP |
| 2 | 56 | F | ACTH | 60 | IV | No CSF leakage | Semireclining |
| 3 | 44 | F | ACTH | 7 | 0 | Gelatin foam + Fibrin Glue | Semireclining |
| 4 | 56 | F | ACTH | 25 | II | No CSF leakage | Semireclining |
| 5 | 22 | F | PRL | 31 | II | Gelatin foam + Fibrin Glue | TSS repair |
| 6 | 68 | M | NF | 41 | II | Fibrin Glue | TSS repair |
| 7 | 43 | M | PRL | 28 | III | No CSF leakage | Semireclining |
| 8 | 46 | F | NF | 14 | II | Gelatin foam | Semireclining |
| 9 | 48 | F | PRL | 23 | III | Gelatin foam + Fibrin Glue | Endoscopy |
| 10 | 48 | F | ACTH | 30 | I | No CSF leakage | Semireclining + LP |
| 11 | 53 | F | NF | 25 | III | No CSF leakage | Semireclining |
| 12 | 53 | F | NF | 24 | III | No CSF leakage | Semireclining |
| 13 | 70 | M | NF | 9 | 0 | No CSF leakage | Endoscopy + LP |