Orbital apex syndrome caused by sphenoethmoid mucocele

Auris Nasus Larynx

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 295-297

  Kumagai, Masaki ^a   Hashimoto, Sho ^a   Suzuki, Hideaki ^b   Matsuura, Kazuto ^a   Takahashi, Etsu ^a  

^a SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mucocele; Orbital apex syndrome; Sphenoethmoid cyst

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FLOMOXEF; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; ETHMOID BONE; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE DISEASE; EYE SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MUCOCELE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; ORBIT APEX SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPHENOID; SYMPTOM; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0043032821     PISSN: 03858146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0385-8146(03)00056-7     Document Type: Article

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