Acute complicated sphenoiditis in childhood. Case report and literature review.
In ENT practice, acute uncomplicated sphenoiditis is rarely diagnosed: very often diagnosis is involved for multiform and unspecific symptomatology, such as to sham nervous, visual and upper respiratory tract diseases. Only a careful differential diagnostics and an instrumental investigation consents to realise quickly a specific treatment, avoiding some complications, still frequent. This case-report, underlines that the polyspecialists' co-operation is necessary to make a correct diagnosis, and to avert important and dangerous complications into shapes of sphenoiditis.
Olina
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Clinica Otorinolaringoiatrica, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università del Piemonte Orientale, A. Avogadro, Novara.
Quaglia
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Stangalini
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V
Guglielmetti
C
C
Binotti
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M
Pia
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F
Bona
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G
D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015524:Sphenoid Sinusitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy