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[Treatment of the sphenoid sinusitis with neuro-ophthalmologic syndromes]
Xiaoping Du1, Qing Cai, Zhelan Ma
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Peoples Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060.
Objective:
To analyze the diagnosis and the treatment of neuro-ophthalmologic syndromes caused by sphenoid sinusitis.
Method:
5 cases with neuro-ophthalmologic syndromes caused by acute or chronic sphenoid sinusitis were reviewed, 3 of them were performed a sphenoidostomy and other two were treated by injecting antibiotics and steroid.
Result:
The surgery and antibiotics can relieve the headache. However, recovery of the neuro-ophthalmologic syndromes was inconstant.
Conclusion:
CT scan can provide an early diagnosis and differential diagnosis. The delayed surgery may be response for the unsatisfied treatment results.
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