Stimulation studies in the cat have shown that the afferent fibers for the oculorespiratory reflex travel with the motor nerves intraorbitalhj, but join the ophthalmic division of the fifth cranial nerve within the cavernous sinus. Degeneration studies confirm that these afferents join the fifth nerve in the cavernous sinus. From the size, number, and distribution of these nerves, it is conclud...

In both the cases described, painful ophthalmoplegia was the first indication of infiltration of the cavernous sinus by a lymphosarcoma. The onset of symptoms and the course of the disease were different in the two cases. CT scan which has been the crucial investigation for detecting lymphomas in the cavernous sinus, was normal in the early stages. Symptomatic remission could be obtained with t...

A 69-year-old woman developed acute angle-closure glaucoma 2 weeks after successful transvenous coil embolization of a traumatic carotid-cavernous sinus fistula. The angle-closure glaucoma was precipitated by oculomotor palsy caused by transvenous coil packing of the cavernous sinus. Emergency iridotomy resulted in normalization of the intraocular pressure and restoration of vision. Acute angle...

Weisman (1944) described a boy with a cavernous sinus thrombosis, probably secondary to an empyema of the lung, who died 24 days after the start 0 of his illness and was found to have pituitary necrosis probably due to infarction. Bouche, Guiot, Carrez, Cotin, and Comoy (1964) gave an account of four patients, all of whom had long histories of headache, who developed the clinical signs of caver...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Aneurysms of the cavernous segment of the internal carotid artery generally exhibit a benign clinical course, with mass effect on cranial nerves. Rupture generally leads to carotid cavernous fistula and, rarely, to subarachnoid hemorrhage. In this study we report results of treatment in 85 patients with 86 cavernous sinus aneurysms. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a 15-year pe...

Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma was coined by Enzinger and Weiss in 1880 to define an intermediate group of vascular neoplasm.1 The tumor is composed of epithelioid or histiocytoid endothelial cells. It commonly occurs in lungs, liver, bone, and presents as a soft tissue mass. Intracranial occurrences are very rare and cavernous sinus is an unusual site. To the best of our knowledge, we found ...