Remarks on thrombosis of the sigmoid sinus with three new cases

Bilateral Sigmoid Sinus Thrombosis and Otitis Media.

Sigmoid sinus thrombosis is a rare complication of otitis media and is known to be unilateral. In this report, we present a case of bilateral sigmoid sinus thrombosis secondary to bilateral otitis. To the best of our knowledge, there are no bilateral-simultaneous cases reported in literature to date. Here, the diagnosis of and treatment for the disease as well as predisposing factors are discus...

Septic Sigmoid Sinus Thrombosis Associated with Otitis Media

Background: Septic sinus thrombosis is an uncommon clinical syndrome that can cause high morbidity and mortality. We report a case with septic thrombosis of the sigmoid sinus caused by otitis media. Case Report: A 58-year-old male presented with a 12-day history of headache. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis showed elevated white cells (1020/uL, polymorphonuclear cells-89%), decreased CSF gluc...

Three Cases of Word-Blindness, with Remarks

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Sigmoid sinus thrombosis associated to chronic otitis media.

UNLABELLED Otogenous lateral sinus thrombosis (OLST) is a rare disease and presents a controversial treatment. AIM Clinical aspects and treatment were reported based on our experience. METHODS Retrospective study. Six cases of OLST were treated in our institution in the last ten years. Clinical and imaging data were analyzed. RESULTS All six patients had the lateral sinus thrombosis detec...