ABSTRACT
The incidence of intracranial complications of otitis media, including lateral sinus thrombophlebitis, has been significantly reduced since the advent of antibiotics. This entity is rarely encountered in clinical practice, and delay in its diagnosis and institution of appropriate therapy may lead to serious, or even fatal, consequences. The signs and clinical course of lateral sinus thrombophlebitis are non-specific and the final diagnosis rests upon radiological investigations including CT-scans and MRI. We have experienced a case of middle fossa and posterior fossa epidural abscess formation, lateral sinus thrombophlebitis that has developed secondary chronic otitis media with cholesteatoma in a 47 year-old female patient. We report this case which was successfully treated by middle fossa dura and posterior fossa dura drainage, lateral sinus thrombectomy with open mastoidectomy.
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Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Anti-Bacterial Agents , Cholesteatoma , Diagnosis , Drainage , Epidural Abscess , Incidence , Lateral Sinus Thrombosis , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Otitis Media , Otitis , Thrombectomy , Transverse SinusesABSTRACT
Subperiosteal abscess of the mastoid region and Bezold's abscesses have become very rare since introduction of antibiotics. Subpriosteal abscess is usually seen in children who have acute mastoiditis. Its occurrence in adults or in associated with chronic otitis media is even more unusual. Bezold's abscess, a complication of acute otitis media in adult who has well pneumatized air cells in the tip of the mastoid, is also rarely seen in the current era of antibiotics. This paper reports a case of postauricular subperiosteal and Bezold's abscess complicating chronic suppurative otitis media with cholesteatoma in a 37-year old woman with review of literatures.