title: Epidural hematoma accompanied by oculomotor nerve palsy due to sphenoid sinusitis.
abstract: Spontaneous epidural hematoma (EDH) is rarely mentioned in the literature as an intracranial complication of sinusitis. We report a 17-year-old female patient who developed spontaneous EDH accompanied by isolated oculomotor nerve palsy as a complication of sphenoid sinusitis. Sphenoid sinusitis could be considered as the causative disease in a patient with spontaneous EDH accompanied by isolated oculomotor nerve palsy without history of head trauma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Medical Research Institute, Busan, South Korea.
authors.forename: Kyu-Sup
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Won-Ho
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Hak-Jin
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hwan-Jung
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Roh
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006407:Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D015840:Oculomotor Nerve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D015524:Sphenoid Sinusitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed