title: Skull base osteomyelitis leading to lateral medullary syndrome in a child.
abstract: Skull base osteomyelitis (SBO) arising from the sphenoidal paranasal air sinus infection without associated external otitis is rare. Initially SBO may have headache as the only symptom with cranial neuropathies occurring later. We report a 10-year-old immunocompetent girl with headache and chronic sinusitis, who developed a lateral medullary syndrome following streptococcal milleri sphenoidal osteomyelitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Neurology, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield, UK.
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.forename: Daniel J A
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Connolly
authors.forename: Christopher D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Rittey
authors.forename: Santosh R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Mordekar
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014854:Lateral Medullary Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D019291:Skull Base