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Cavernous sinus thrombosis - A case report

VAIRAVA SUNDARAM

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Cavernous sinus thrombosis (CST) was first   described by Bright in 1831 as a complication of epidural and subdural infections in adult. Incidence of cavernous sinus thrombosis (CST) is very low, only a few hundred case             reports so far in the medical literature. The majority of these available data are from before the modern antibiotic era. One of the English-language literature reviews found only 88 cases from 1940-1988.


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