A febrile 38-year-old male presented with bilateral proptosis, motility dysfunction, and facial swelling (Fig. 1). The patient was recently treated for a nasal abscess and bacteremia, both positive for methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). Visual acuity was 20/20 in each eye. Brain and orbit imaging revealed bilateral superior ophthalmic vein thromboses, cavernous sinus thromboses...

BACKGROUND Estimations of D-dimer correlate with deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism and may serve as a marker of cortical venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). AIM To study the usefulness of D-dimer in the diagnosis of CVST. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 26 patients with CVST were subjected to a detailed medical history and neurological evaluation. A cranial MRI was carried out...

In the year 1887 I reported in this Journal1 a case of septic thrombosis and phlebitis of lateral sinus following middle-ear disease, which went on to a fatal termination, as all cases of the kind did at that period. But in the preceding year Mr. Victor Horsley had made the valuable suggestion 2 that ligature of the internal jugular vein might arrest the flow of septic material into the blood; ...

Acute sinusitis (ARS) and chronic rhinosinusitis(CRS) is a common condition worldwide.CRS is due to the infection and inflammation of paranasal sinuses. Frequent clinical manifestations of ARS include persistent symptoms with nasal discharge or cough or both, presentation with fever accompanies purulent nasal discharge, and worsening symptoms. Complications of CRS have five stages, preseptal ce...

Case presentation: Female patient, 1 year and 7 months old, previously healthy, presented cervical adenomegaly, fever, periorbital edema after receiving MMR vaccine. She evolved with a deviation of the labial commissure to right, neck stiffness, bilateral edema. On hospital admission, she normal cranial tomography infectious cerebrospinal fluid negative culture. had generalized onset tonic-clon...

Orbital cellulitis is an emergency. Confusion still exists between the diagnosis of this serious condition and that of preseptal cellulitis. Delay in treatment may cause blindness and progression to life-threatening sequelae such as brain abscess, meningitis or cavernous sinus thrombosis. We report a case in which, despite late referral, emergency surgical intervention was sight saving.

hemangiomas of the sinonasal tract are rare, and because these lesions lack the typical signs or symptoms, they can be confused with other malignant conditions. we report a case of cavernous hemangioma of the maxillary sinus in a 68-year-old man that was completely resected by endoscopic sinus surgery. although computed tomography (ct) and magnetic resonance imaging (mri) showed several enhanci...