[Treatment of the sphenoid sinusitis with neuro-ophthalmologic syndromes].
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the diagnosis and the treatment of neuro-ophthalmologic syndromes caused by sphenoid sinusitis.


METHODS
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.


RESULTS
The surgery and antibiotics can relieve the headache. However, recovery of the neuro-ophthalmologic syndromes was inconstant.


CONCLUSIONS
CT scan can provide an early diagnosis and differential diagnosis. The delayed surgery may be response for the unsatisfied treatment results.
Du
Xiaoping
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Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Peoples Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060.
Cai
Qing
Q
Ma
Zhelan
Z
Tao
Zezhang
Z
Wu
Zhangyuan
Z
D000328:Adult; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015524:Sphenoid Sinusitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed