Speech bubble: dysphasia secondary to spontaneous intraparenchymal pneumocephalus

Abstract

Spontaneous pneumocephalus is exceptionally rare, with few published cases in the literature. We describe a patient presenting with dysphasia, right facial weakness, headache and confusion who was subsequently found to have pneumocephalus due to an encephalocoele herniating into a tegmen tympani defect.

Keywords:

• Pneumocephalus
• dysphasia
• tegmen tympani defect
• encephalocoele

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