Cavernous sinus thrombosis progression from trismus

In the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, patients with trismus can be easily identified. If the cause of trismus is infection of the masticatory space near the pterygoid plexus, the possibility of cavernous sinus thrombosis should be considered. We report the case of a patient who presen...

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Autores principales: Cho, Jin Yong, Kim, Hyeon Min, Ryu, Jae Young
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4347033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25741468
http://dx.doi.org/10.5125/jkaoms.2015.41.1.43
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description In the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, patients with trismus can be easily identified. If the cause of trismus is infection of the masticatory space near the pterygoid plexus, the possibility of cavernous sinus thrombosis should be considered. We report the case of a patient who presented with limited mouth opening and progressed to cavernous sinus thrombosis, along with a review of the relevant literature.
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spelling pubmed-43470332015-03-04 Cavernous sinus thrombosis progression from trismus Cho, Jin Yong Kim, Hyeon Min Ryu, Jae Young J Korean Assoc Oral Maxillofac Surg Case Report In the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, patients with trismus can be easily identified. If the cause of trismus is infection of the masticatory space near the pterygoid plexus, the possibility of cavernous sinus thrombosis should be considered. We report the case of a patient who presented with limited mouth opening and progressed to cavernous sinus thrombosis, along with a review of the relevant literature. The Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 2015-02 2015-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4347033/ /pubmed/25741468 http://dx.doi.org/10.5125/jkaoms.2015.41.1.43 Text en Copyright © 2015 The Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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