Spontaneous extensive pneumocephalus with rare frontoethmoidal recess skull base defect presenting with acute headache

Abstract

We report a 40-year-old diabetic female with acute headache and case of skull base defect causing pneumocephalus. The highlights of the present case are acute clinical presentation, extensive radiological findings, and rare skull base defect in frontoethmoidal recess.

Keywords

• cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea
• pneumocephalus
• skull base defect