# CSF Leak Following Microvascular Decompression: the Benefit of Routine Postoperative Lumbar Tap

> **NCT01932255** · — · WITHDRAWN · sponsor: **St. Olavs Hospital**

## Conditions studied

- Cranial Nerve Diseases
- Facial Neuralgia
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Hemifacial Spasm

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** prophylactic spinal tap
- **PROCEDURE:** no prophylactic spinal tap

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT01932255
- **Lead sponsor:** St. Olavs Hospital
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** —
- **Study type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Status:** WITHDRAWN
- **Start date:** 2013-10
- **Primary completion:** 2014-07
- **Final completion:** 2014-12
- **Target enrollment:** 0 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** inadequate data
- **Last updated:** 2015-05-13

## Collaborators

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## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01932255

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01932255, "CSF Leak Following Microvascular Decompression: the Benefit of Routine Postoperative Lumbar Tap". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT01932255. Licensed CC0.

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