%0 Journal Article
%T Computerised tomographic detection of intracranial complications of paranasal sinus infections
%A AO Ogunseyinde
%A MO Obajimi
%A AM Agunloye
%J West African Journal of Medicine
%D 2004
%I 
%X Ninety-four patients were referred for CT examination of the paranasal sinuses within a five year period. Only 11 (11.7%) of them had intracranial complications. These include cerebral, subdural and epidural abscesses, frontal bone osteomyelitis. The maxillary and ethmoidal sinuses were mostly involved and can be implicated as the sinogenic causes of intracranial infections. Sphenoidal sinus was not involved in any of the patients. Key Words: Intracranial Complications, Sinusitis, Computed tomography. R¨¦sum¨¦ 94 patients ont ¨¦t¨¦ envoy¨¦s chez un sp¨¦cialiste pour un examen CT des sinusetes para nasales en moins d'une p¨¦riode de cinq ans. Seulement 11 soit 11,7% d'entre eux ¨¦taient atteints des complications intracraniennes. Y compris sous dural c¨¦r¨¦bral, et des abc¨¦s ¨¦pi durites, os frontal ost¨¦omy¨¦lite. Les sinusites maxillmaires et ethmoidales ¨¦taient principalement concern¨¦s, donc, on peut conclure qu'ils sont des causes sinog¨¦niques des infections intracraniennes. La sinuite sph¨¦noidale n'¨¦tait pas indique chez aucun des patients. West African Journal of Medicine Vol.23(4) 2004: 286-289
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