BACKGROUND Fungal aneurysms of the carotid artery are rare. We report here a case of Aspergillus fumigatus invasive sphenoidal sinusitis complicated by carotid artery aneurysms in a severely neutropenic patient who was successfully treated with a combination of antifungal therapy and embolization of all aneurysms. METHODS AND RESULTS Carotid aneurysms were suspected when severe epistaxis occu...

I t has long been recognized that diseases of upper and lower airways may coexist. Indeed, as many as 80% of patients with asthma have rhinitis,1 and up to 15% of patients with allergic rhinitis have asthma.2 Sinusitis and asthma are also frequently associated in the same patient, but doubts still remain as to whether a causal relationship exists wherein sinusitis worsens bronchial asthma, or w...

background: giant cell tumor is a benign but locally aggressive bone neoplasm which uncommonly involves the skull. giant cell tumor (gct) of the sphenoid bone is relatively rare. in this report, we describe a tumor of the greater wing of left sphenoid bone. case presentation: a 31-year-old female was presented with headache, proptosis and diplopia of her left eye. cranial magnetic resonance ima...

Objectives: Cholesterol granuloma of the sphenoid sinus has rarely been reported. Methods: A 50-year-old man visited our hospital presenting with a 2-year history of intermittent right-sided headache, 1-month history of right-sided tinnitus, and 5-year history of nasal obstruction and purulent nasal discharge. Computed tomography revealed a well-demarcated expansile mass in the right sphenoid s...

UNLABELLED Sinusitis in children may sometimes present non-specific signs and symptoms. The imaging techniques used for its diagnosis are computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, the standard radiography being used less and less. Ultrasonography is seldom mentioned in literature as a diagnosis method of sinusitis. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to evaluate the value of ultr...

OBJECTIVE Searching the H. pylori -DNAs in adenoid and IgA, IgG antibodies in serum of children. METHODS A cross- sectional study had done upon 53 children (Mean age 8 ±1.9 years) with adenoid surgery in ENT and Pediatric Department of Rasul Akram Hospital (2008-2010). Of 53 cases with adenoid surgery, 40 cases had rhino sinusitis (in sinus CT scan). The resected adenoid tissues (n=40) centri...

Introduction: Isolated sphenoid sinus inflammatory diseases (ISSIDs) are responsible for about 75% of isolated sphenoid sinus opacifications. Computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) should be used in a complementary manner for the assessment of ISSIDs. This evaluation sheds some light on the extent of disease and intracranial and intra-orbital involvement. ...

SUMMARY Spontaneous lateral sphenoid cephaloceles arise from bony defects in the lateral sphenoid, in the absence of predisposing factors such as trauma, surgery, mass, or congenital skull base malformation. We reviewed CT and MR imaging findings and clinical data of 26 patients with spontaneous lateral sphenoid cephaloceles to better understand anatomic contributions to pathogenesis, varying c...

Background Sphenoethmoid cells may be above the sphenoid sinus with/ or without con-tact to optical nerve. Although sphenoethmoid cells are theoretically considered to possibly influence the sphenoid sinus volume, we could not find any study in the literature on this issue. Aims The aim of our study was to detect sphenoethmoid cells and measure the sphenoid sinus vol-ume using multiplanar com...