Meningitis following relapsing painful ophthalmoplegia in aspergillus sphenoidal sinusitis: a case report.

Abstract

We report the case of a 58-year-old woman in whom relapsing painful ophthalmoplegia related to a mycetoma of the sphenoid sinus gave origin to meningitis with markedly depressed glucose levels in the cerebrospinal fluid. Surgical exeresis of the mycetoma allowed aetiological diagnosis (aspergillosis) and--together with antimycotic therapy--led to durable clinical response.

• Authors: A Botturi, A Salmaggi, B Pollo, E Lamperti, A Erbetta, A Boiardi
• Journal: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (Neurol Sci) Vol. 27 Issue 4 Pg. 284-7 (Sep 2006) ISSN: 1590-1874 [Print] Italy
• PMID: 16998735 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Glucose

Topics

• Female
• Glucose (cerebrospinal fluid)
• Humans
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (methods)
• Meningitis (cerebrospinal fluid, etiology, pathology)
• Middle Aged
• Mycetoma
• Ophthalmoplegia (cerebrospinal fluid, complications)
• Sphenoid Sinusitis (cerebrospinal fluid, complications)
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed (methods)