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Emanuel Roth, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1931;13(3):439-442.

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In searching the files in the library of the New York Academy of Medicine, I have not found any literature on the aural discharge of cerebrospinal fluid other than that following injuries of the head with fracture at the base of the skull. Marcel Rault,¹ in his thesis, gave six case reports of the escape of cerebrospinal fluid from the external auditory canal following injuries of the head with fracture at the base of the skull, and he stated three conditions as being necessary to cause this discharge: "Donc traumatisme extrèmement violent, produisant délaceration de la substance cérébrale, et brèche osseuse"² (extremely violent traumatism, producing laceration of the cerebral substance, and a fissured fracture).

The case that I shall report is not a sequel to an injury to the head with fracture at the base of the skull and is, so far as I have been able to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Flushing, N. Y. Assistant Otolaryngologist, Columbia University Medical School and Clinical Assistant, Vanderbilt Clinic

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Sept. 5, 1930.

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