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Case Reports
. 2017 Jun 21:7:113-114.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajoc.2017.06.005. eCollection 2017 Sep.

Bilateral cavernous sinus thrombosis with septic lung lesions resulting from a nasal abscess

Matthew J Schear  1 , Alexander Weiss  1 , Rand Rodgers  1
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Case Reports

Bilateral cavernous sinus thrombosis with septic lung lesions resulting from a nasal abscess

Matthew J Schear et al. Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Cavernous sinus thrombosis; Orbital infection.

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Presentation photo.
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A: computed tomography head revealing bilateral cavernous sinus thromboses (white arrows); B: superior ophthalmic vein thromboses (black arrows); C: tenting left globe (white arrows); D: magnetic resonance imaging orbit demonstrating abscess left temporalis muscle (black arrow).
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Computed tomography chest demonstrating cavitary lung lesions (yellow arrowheads). (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
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Discharge photo.
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