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Detection of Bronchopleural-Subarachnoid Fistula by Radionuclide Myelography: Case Report

The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center and Veterans Administration Hospital, Tucson, Arizona

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Kenneth Hofstetter, Nuclear Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center and Veterans Administration Hospital, Tucson, AZ 85724.

ABSTRACT

Radionuclide myeloscintigraphy has previously been used to demonstrate subarachnoid fistulae. In the present case a patient with bronchogenic carcinoma developed spontaneous pneumocephalus postoperatively. Chest radiographs showed an air-fluid level in the postoperative area. Various diagnostic tests were used, but only a radionuclide myeloscintigram showed the presence of a bronchopleural-subarachnoid fistula.

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