1. [Tooth-pick? Picking the Right Tooth].
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Apicella L, Cassis PR, and Balestra B
- Subjects
- Aged, 80 and over, Diagnosis, Differential, Humans, Male, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Chondrocalcinosis diagnosis, Facial Pain surgery, Maxillary Sinusitis diagnosis, Maxillary Sinusitis etiology, Odontoid Process, Postoperative Complications diagnosis, Postoperative Complications etiology, Tooth Eruption, Ectopic complications, Tooth Eruption, Ectopic diagnosis, Tooth Extraction
- Abstract
We report about an 80-year-old patient, who underwent the extraction of an upper molar tooth because of facial pain. In the course of time the patient developed a maxillary sinusitis in presence of an ectopic tooth. Given that the patient got fever, neck pain and -stiffness, a purulent meningitis was first suspected. The liquor analysis was normal and the CT-scan showed a calcification around the dens axis. We finally diagnosed a “Crowned Dens”-syndrome.
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- 2016
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