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. 2014 Aug 21;8:282. doi: 10.1186/1752-1947-8-282

Table 2.

Intracranial complication of odontogenic sinusitis

Author Reference number Cases/total Involved sinuses Odontogenic cause
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.