Pneumocephalus as a Sentinel Sign in Craniofacial Trauma

At this year’s Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics (SBMT) Annual Meeting, I had the privilege of presenting alongside an outstanding team, including **Roya Gheissari, MD** and **Samantha Bebel, BS**, whose contributions were instrumental to this work.

Our collaboration spanned both a **poster presentation** and an **oral session** focused on craniofacial trauma and dural injury.

My oral presentation, *“Large Pneumocephalus as a Sentinel Sign of Dural Injury Following Frontal Sinus Trauma,”* addressed a critical diagnostic gap: the absence of classic CSF leak symptoms does not exclude significant dural injury. 

In parallel, our poster—*“Pneumocephalus as an Early Indicator Prompting Repair of Occult Dural Injury Following Facial Trauma”*—highlighted a compelling case in which **radiographic pneumocephalus served as an early and actionable indicator**, prompting timely operative intervention before clinical deterioration. 

This work reflects the strength of multidisciplinary collaboration and reinforces a key principle in craniofacial trauma:

**Imaging is not adjunctive—it is often decisive.**

Grateful to work with a team committed to advancing surgical decision-making and improving patient outcomes.

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