Sequelae of Scarlet Fever: Involving Temporal Bones, Paranasal Sinuses, Meninges, and Lateral and Cavernous Sinuses, With New Bone Formation in Jugular Bulb
Abstract:The case reported here is recorded because it presented symptoms of every intracranial involvement known to complicate infection of the ear, nose and throat. The pathologic study of the temporal bones and of a block from the sphenoid bone revealed : thrombosis of the lateral and cavernous sinuses ; abscess of the carotid artery ; labyrinthitis ; petrositis, with extension to the meninges, and organization, with new bone formation blocking the jugular bulb.
REPORT OF A CASEH. C., aged 6 years, entered the St. L… Show more
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