Case Report
Recurrent Hodgkin’s Disease Presenting as a Clinically Isolated Cavernous Sinus Syndrome
Table 1
Different aetiologies of cavernous sinus syndrome.
| Aetiology | Division | Example |
| Infection | Fungal | Mucomycosis, phycomycosis | Viral | Herpes zoster virus opthalmicus |
| Tumours | Within cavernous sinus | Meningioma, schwanomma | Compressive tumours | Pituitary adenomas, chordomas, chondrosarcomas, metastatic lesions |
| Vascular | Aneurysms | Cavernous segment aneurysm, intramural intracranial aneurysm | Carotid-cavernous fistulas | Direct and indirect fistulas | Cavernous sinus thrombosis | |
| Trauma | | Any base of skull fracture which involves the cavernous sinus |
| Inflammation | Sarcoid | | Tolosa–Hunt syndrome | |
|
|