Table 2.
Intracranial complication of odontogenic sinusitis
Author Reference number | Cases/total | Involved sinuses |
Odontogenic cause |
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---|---|---|---|---|---|
Diagnosis | Site of complication | Notes | |||
Maniglia et al. [3] |
1/13 |
Pansinusitis |
Confirmed |
Multiple subdural empyema |
Bacteroides; Dead |
Clayman et al. [2] |
2/24 |
Frontal/maxillary |
Probable |
Meningitis |
– |
Maxillary |
Probable |
Multiple septic embolic infarcts |
– |
||
Giannoni et al. [7] |
1/12 |
Maxillary |
Probable |
– |
– |
Chandy et al. [11] |
1 |
Ethmoid/maxillary/frontal |
Confirmed |
Pott’s puffy tumor and epidural abscess |
Dental extraction 2 months before |
Lu et al. [18] |
1/9 |
– |
Probable |
Brain abscess |
Bacteroides |
Roche et al. [20] |
2/35 |
– |
Confirmed |
Brain abscess |
– |
Martines et al. [22] | 1 | Ethmoid/maxillary/frontal | Confirmed | Parietal subdural empyema | Bacteroides |
"–" indicate absence of information in the references.