Acute Sinusitis Resulting in a Craniotomy: An Uncommon Complication of a Common Infection
Acute bacterial sinusitis is a common infectious condition. Patients may initially present with an uncomplicated infection and later, despite appropriate initial antibiotic therapy, develop a potentially life-threatening complication. Interventions aimed at alleviating such unexpected events need be...
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| description | Acute bacterial sinusitis is a common infectious condition. Patients may initially present with an uncomplicated infection and later, despite appropriate initial antibiotic therapy, develop a potentially life-threatening complication. Interventions aimed at alleviating such unexpected events need be prompt and adequate. We describe a case of a patient who initially presented with signs and symptoms of acute sinusitis later to be diagnosed with a frontal epidural abscess. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-21439899b76943b7bbe2c09bb52c39782025-08-20T03:54:47ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332012-01-01201210.1155/2012/979836979836Acute Sinusitis Resulting in a Craniotomy: An Uncommon Complication of a Common InfectionAllison Price0Arjun Mohan1Larry M. Bush2JFK Medical Center and Division of General Internal Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USAJFK Medical Center and Division of General Internal Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USADepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USAAcute bacterial sinusitis is a common infectious condition. Patients may initially present with an uncomplicated infection and later, despite appropriate initial antibiotic therapy, develop a potentially life-threatening complication. Interventions aimed at alleviating such unexpected events need be prompt and adequate. We describe a case of a patient who initially presented with signs and symptoms of acute sinusitis later to be diagnosed with a frontal epidural abscess.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/979836 |
| spellingShingle | Allison Price Arjun Mohan Larry M. Bush Acute Sinusitis Resulting in a Craniotomy: An Uncommon Complication of a Common Infection Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | Acute Sinusitis Resulting in a Craniotomy: An Uncommon Complication of a Common Infection |
| title_full | Acute Sinusitis Resulting in a Craniotomy: An Uncommon Complication of a Common Infection |
| title_fullStr | Acute Sinusitis Resulting in a Craniotomy: An Uncommon Complication of a Common Infection |
| title_full_unstemmed | Acute Sinusitis Resulting in a Craniotomy: An Uncommon Complication of a Common Infection |
| title_short | Acute Sinusitis Resulting in a Craniotomy: An Uncommon Complication of a Common Infection |
| title_sort | acute sinusitis resulting in a craniotomy an uncommon complication of a common infection |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/979836 |
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