[Acute frontal sinusitis accompanied with extra-dural abscess (a case reported with literature reviewed)].

OBJECTIVE

To investigate the clinical characteristics of acute frontal sinusitis accompanied with extra-dural abscess.

METHOD: A case of acute frontal sinusitis accompanied with extra-dural abscess diagnosed by CT was analyzed, and the relative literatures were reviewed.

RESULT: Headache, high fever and failure to antibiotic therapy were the main three clinical characteristics.

CONCLUSION

It is the most important thing to drainage the abscess except for antibiotic therapy for acute frontal sinusitis accompanied with extra-dural abscess. Antibiotic therapy cannot substitute for surgery.