title: Presumed tuberculosis presenting as a cavernous sinus syndrome.
abstract: Cavernous sinus involvement of tuberculosis is rare. We present a 65-year-old woman with extrapulmonary tuberculosis who presented with a cavernous sinus syndrome clinically. A cervical lymph node biopsy revealed non-caseating granulomas but cultures were eventually positive for M. tuberculosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bafna
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002426:Cavernous Sinus / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009333:Neck; D009886:Ophthalmoplegia / Q000175:diagnosis; D013577:Syndrome; D016862:Tuberculoma, Intracranial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology