Sphenoid Sinusitis

03/01/2019 - "Although porous polyethylene implants have previously been described as safe and effective for this purpose, surgeons should be aware of the risk of subsequent implant extrusion and chronic sphenoid sinusitis that can occur in a delayed manner."
03/01/2019 - "Development of Chronic Sphenoid Sinusitis After Sellar Reconstruction with Medpor Porous Polyethylene Implant."

04/01/2009 - "First, acute sphenoid sinusitis is rare and second, most of these patients respond to antibiotics. "
04/01/2001 - "Answer: antibiotics for sphenoid sinusitis."
07/01/1995 - "The incidence of sphenoid sinusitis has decreased significantly since the pre-antibiotic era. "
09/01/2016 - "The surgical indication was based on failure of antibiotic therapy and/or the nature and severity of sphenoid sinusitis. "
10/04/2021 - "We present the case of a 61-year-old woman who presented to the accident and emergency department with an ischaemic stroke, on a background of receiving intravenous and oral antibiotics to treat chronic left sphenoid sinusitis. "

01/01/2016 - "Medical treatment with steroids resulted in Aspergillus meningoencephalitis spreading to the bottom of bilateral frontal lobes, caused by an intracranial extension of sphenoid sinusitis. "
07/01/1991 - "Steroid-responsive painful ophthalmoplegia in childhood: sphenoid sinusitis presenting as Tolosa-Hunt syndrome."
01/01/2016 - "We report a case of steroid-resistant Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (THS) with recurrent bilateral painful ophthalmoplegia, accompanied with sphenoid sinusitis, pituitary abscess, and an aneurysm arising from the cavernous portion of the internal carotid artery. "
02/01/2002 - "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. "

01/01/2009 - "Only 5/20 patients were treated with TNFalpha antagonists (invasive lung aspergillosis, n = 3; intracranial aspergillosis, n = 1; and sphenoidal sinusitis, n = 1). "

11/01/2016 - "The key-points of surgery were as follows: ①for single fungal sphenoid sinusitis, fracturing middle turbinate ourward or resecting one-third of posterior middle turbinate, enlarging the osseous ostium of sinus, removing sinus fungal ball and polypoid nucosa, and flipping mucosa of ostium inside sphenoid sinus to avoid narrow of ostium;②for fungal maxillary sinusitis, retaining uncinate process or resecting tail of uncinate process, enlarging ostium of maxillary sinus according to surgical field, and resecting lesion tissue;③for frontal-ethmoidal sinus lesion, routine treatment was performed; ④iodoform gauze packing the surgical cavity after soaking it with diluted iodine solution(1∶1) for 5 min. Result:Pathological examination indicated that 39 cases were infected with fungus(38 cases with aspergillus and 1 case with mucor, respectively), including 4 cases in which lesion mucosa was invaded by fungus. "

01/01/2005 - "We report a case of septic right superior ophthalmic vein thrombosis complicated by left sphenoid sinusitis with methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). "

11/01/2016 - "The key-points of surgery were as follows: ①for single fungal sphenoid sinusitis, fracturing middle turbinate ourward or resecting one-third of posterior middle turbinate, enlarging the osseous ostium of sinus, removing sinus fungal ball and polypoid nucosa, and flipping mucosa of ostium inside sphenoid sinus to avoid narrow of ostium;②for fungal maxillary sinusitis, retaining uncinate process or resecting tail of uncinate process, enlarging ostium of maxillary sinus according to surgical field, and resecting lesion tissue;③for frontal-ethmoidal sinus lesion, routine treatment was performed; ④iodoform gauze packing the surgical cavity after soaking it with diluted iodine solution(1∶1) for 5 min. Result:Pathological examination indicated that 39 cases were infected with fungus(38 cases with aspergillus and 1 case with mucor, respectively), including 4 cases in which lesion mucosa was invaded by fungus. "

10/01/2013 - "MRI enhanced with gadolinium demonstrated sphenoid sinusitis and mass lesion in the right cavernous sinus. "

03/01/2012 - "In this single-patient case study, carotid aneurysm with sphenoidal sinusitis was suspected when severe epistaxis occurred during cyclophosphamide pulse therapy. "

09/01/1990 - "We present a case of sphenoid sinusitis resulting in a debilitating headache refractory to both oral and intramuscular analgesics. "

06/01/2018 - "In patients with chronic sphenoid sinusitis refractory to medical therapy and surgery it could be a valid alternative to revision sphenoidotomy."
06/01/2018 - "Chronic sphenoid sinusitis refractory to both medical therapy and sphenoidotomy requires a more extended intervention based on the principles of salvage surgery. "
06/01/1995 - "Immediate surgery is strongly recommended for acute sphenoid sinusitis at the first suggestion of a complication and in those patients not promptly responding to medical therapy. "
09/01/1993 - "Fungal sphenoid sinusitis can be a life-threatening situation, thus aggressive therapy is indicated. "
12/15/2007 - "We report here a case of Aspergillus fumigatus invasive sphenoidal sinusitis complicated by carotid artery aneurysms in a severely neutropenic patient who was successfully treated with a combination of antifungal therapy and embolization of all aneurysms. "

01/01/1995 - "The endoscopic intranasal surgery for sphenoid sinusitis enables the complicated surgical procedures simple. "
08/01/2015 - "We performed a septal-assisted surgical procedure for endoscopic sphenoidectomy in 38 patients with isolated or combined sphenoidal sinus lesions, including fungal balls, mucoceles, purulent cystic sphenoidal sinusitis, etc. The posterior portion of the nasal septum became flexible after removal of the vomer and the sphenoidal rostrum. "

03/01/2005 - "Isolated sphenoid sinusitis after transsphenoidal hypophysectomy."
10/01/2012 - "Forty-five of these cases underwent complete or major resection of the lesion by endoscopic sphenoid sinus surgery, including 23 cyst and pus cyst of sphenoidal sinus, 8 fungal sphenoid sinusitis, 2 bleeding polyp of sphenoidal sinus, 1 post- hypophysectomy granulation hyperplasia of sphenoidal sinus , 5 papilloma of sphenoid sinus, 1 cerebrospinal rhinorrhea of sphenoid sinus, 2 ossified fibroma of sphenoid sinus,2 juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma with invasion to the sphenoid sinus, 1 meningioma of ethmoid and sphenoid sinus. "

01/01/2021 - "Emergent endoscopic sinus surgery was performed for biopsy and debridement of the ethmoidal and sphenoid sinusitis to decompress the optic nerve. "
01/01/2020 - "She was diagnosed to have invasive fungal sphenoid sinusitis and central skull base osteomyelitis involving the clivus and was successfully treated with endoscopic transnasal transsphenoidal debridement followed by antifungal therapy."

01/01/1995 - "The endoscopic intranasal surgery for sphenoid sinusitis enables the complicated surgical procedures simple. "