Canalis basalis medianus with cerebrospinal fluid leak: rare presentation and literature review

Abstract

Canalis Basalis Medianus is a rare congenital normal anatomically variant of the clivus .We report a very rare case of cerebrospinal fluid leak from a canalis basilaris medianus in a 22-year-old male, who presented to our hospital with frontal headache and running nose two weeks after an elective septoplasty.

Keywords:

• Surgical management
• neuroanatomy
• CSF leak
• meningitis

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