Cavernous sinus and jugular thromboses, base of skull osteomyelitis and cranial nerve palsies: catastrophic complications of sphenoid sinusitis

Sphenoid sinusitis is a clinically important entity as it may be associated with catastrophic complications including cavernous sinus thrombosis (CST), cerebral abscess or infarction, meningitis, base of skull osteomyelitis and cranial nerve palsies. We report a case of occult sphenoid sinusitis pre...

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Autores principales: Jih, Wen-An, Shukla, Tej, Gillespie, Jennifer, Chapman, Paul Robert
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2023
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Case Reports: Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9896245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36731941
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-253496
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description Sphenoid sinusitis is a clinically important entity as it may be associated with catastrophic complications including cavernous sinus thrombosis (CST), cerebral abscess or infarction, meningitis, base of skull osteomyelitis and cranial nerve palsies. We report a case of occult sphenoid sinusitis presenting as Streptococcus intermedius bacteraemia, bilateral jugular vein and CST, cranial nerve palsy and base of skull osteomyelitis.
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spelling pubmed-98962452023-02-04 Cavernous sinus and jugular thromboses, base of skull osteomyelitis and cranial nerve palsies: catastrophic complications of sphenoid sinusitis Jih, Wen-An Shukla, Tej Gillespie, Jennifer Chapman, Paul Robert BMJ Case Rep Case Reports: Unusual association of diseases/symptoms Sphenoid sinusitis is a clinically important entity as it may be associated with catastrophic complications including cavernous sinus thrombosis (CST), cerebral abscess or infarction, meningitis, base of skull osteomyelitis and cranial nerve palsies. We report a case of occult sphenoid sinusitis presenting as Streptococcus intermedius bacteraemia, bilateral jugular vein and CST, cranial nerve palsy and base of skull osteomyelitis. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9896245/ /pubmed/36731941 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-253496 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
spellingShingle Case Reports: Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
Jih, Wen-An
Shukla, Tej
Gillespie, Jennifer
Chapman, Paul Robert
Cavernous sinus and jugular thromboses, base of skull osteomyelitis and cranial nerve palsies: catastrophic complications of sphenoid sinusitis
title Cavernous sinus and jugular thromboses, base of skull osteomyelitis and cranial nerve palsies: catastrophic complications of sphenoid sinusitis
title_full Cavernous sinus and jugular thromboses, base of skull osteomyelitis and cranial nerve palsies: catastrophic complications of sphenoid sinusitis
title_fullStr Cavernous sinus and jugular thromboses, base of skull osteomyelitis and cranial nerve palsies: catastrophic complications of sphenoid sinusitis
title_full_unstemmed Cavernous sinus and jugular thromboses, base of skull osteomyelitis and cranial nerve palsies: catastrophic complications of sphenoid sinusitis
title_short Cavernous sinus and jugular thromboses, base of skull osteomyelitis and cranial nerve palsies: catastrophic complications of sphenoid sinusitis
title_sort cavernous sinus and jugular thromboses, base of skull osteomyelitis and cranial nerve palsies: catastrophic complications of sphenoid sinusitis
topic Case Reports: Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9896245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36731941
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-253496
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