[Suppurative meningitis as a complication of suppurative-necrotic ethmoiditis with fusion of the ethmoid bone].

Analysis of a clinical case of secondary purulent meningitis due to the spread of inflammation from back cells of the ethmoid bone is the focus of this review. Attention is concentrated on difficulties of diagnosing this variant of ethmoiditis and high risk of development of cerebral complications. It is advisable that clinical methods of examination be combined with instrumental ones in order that to avoid gross blunders in diagnosis might be avoided.