[Immediate and late results of the treatment of cerebrospinal rhinorrhea at the Department of Neurosurgery of the District Hospital in Rzeszów].

In the period 1976-1989 in the Neurosurgery Department, Province Hospital in Rzeszów 130 patients were treated for CSF rhinorrhoea and 104 of them were treated surgically. Out of these 104 patients 6 died after the operation because of purulent complications and severe brain injury following extensive open fractures of the anterior cranial fossa. The follow-up examinations are performed 1 to 13 years after the operation and conservative treatment. From the surgical group 77 (79%) came for the examination: 75 led active life, 50 resumed occupational work, 25 had disability pensions, 2 died, the cause of death was not established. From the group treated conservatively 15 patients responded (71%). Seven resumed occupation, 8 received disability pension, one died of cerebral abscess 3 years after head trauma.