Spontaneous sphenoid sinus mucocele revealed by meningitis and brain abscess in a 12-year-old child

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 873-875

  Malard, Olivier ^a,b   Gayet Delacroix, Marie ^a   Jegoux, Franck ^a   Faure, Alexis ^a   Bordure, Philippe ^a   De Montreuil, Claude Beauvillain ^a  

^a NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC TRANSNASAL MARSUPIALIZATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MALE; MENINGITIS; MUCOCELE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL BASE; SPHENOID SINUS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BRAIN ABSCESS; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MUCOCELE; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 2442706800     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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