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Twelve-year-old girl with intracranial epidural abscess and sphenoiditis
Toshiyuki Seto1, Hiroharu Takesada1, Naoki Matsushita2
1Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Japan.
Abstract:
We report the case of a 12-year-old girl with an intracranial epidural abscess and sphenoiditis. Although she had no history of sinusitis, she developed acute severe headache, fever, and vomiting. Emergent CT and MRI showed a spherical space-occupying lesion of diameter 3 cm in the right cranial fossa with rim enhancement. The lesion was thought to be an epidural abscess adjacent to the right sphenoiditis. On the basis of the MRI findings, we performed emergent surgery to drain the abscess and sinusitis because of severe and rapidly worsening headaches. The patient showed great improvement the day after the operation. Intravenous antibiotics were administered for 8 days. She has completely recovered, with neither sequelae nor recurrence at 7 months after the operation. We believe that this report will be a useful reference for cases of acute onset headache and may be helpful in diagnosis and treatment decisions for severe sinusitis-related intracranial abscess in childhood.
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