
Analysis of a clinical case of secondary purulent meningitis due to the spread of inflammation from back cells of the ethmoid bone is the focus of this review. Attention is concentrated on difficulties of diagnosing this variant of ethmoiditis and high risk of development of cerebral complications. It is advisable that clinical methods of examination be combined with instrumental ones in order that to avoid gross blunders in diagnosis might be avoided.
Adult, Ethmoid Sinusitis, Diagnosis, Differential, Ethmoid Bone, Necrosis, Fatal Outcome, Acute Disease, Humans, Female, Meningitis, Diagnostic Errors
Adult, Ethmoid Sinusitis, Diagnosis, Differential, Ethmoid Bone, Necrosis, Fatal Outcome, Acute Disease, Humans, Female, Meningitis, Diagnostic Errors
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