Rhombencephalitis in cocaine-induced nasal septal perforation and skull base erosion
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Rhomboencephalitis due to cocaine-induced bony erosion of skull base.
A 49-year-old man with 10 years of intranasal cocaine use presented with dysphagia. Neurologic examination demonstrated bilateral sixth nerve palsies. Brain MRI showed erosion of the sphenoid sinus walls and a defect in the skull base; the resulting path between the nasal cavity and brainstem permitted rhomboencephalitis and clival osteomyelitis (figure 1). Clival cultures grew methicillin-resi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0899-8280,1525-3252
DOI: 10.1080/08998280.2018.1536586