Extensive necrosis of the petro-mastoid following middle-ear suppuration

Mastoid Suppuration without Tympanic Perforation and Suppuration

Endoscopic Middle Ear and Mastoid Surgery for Cholesteatoma

Introduction: To reduce incidence of residual cholesteatoma following ear surgery; and to reduce the need for second look “open” mastoidectomy using endoscopic mastoidotomy. Ten-year retrospective chart review of 249 primary cholesteatoma cases (1994-2004) with a minimum follow-up of two years.  The first objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of otoendoscopy in reducing the incidence of “...

Suppuration of the Middle Ear Treated with Urea Solution

A Hixdu woman, aged 30 years, came to the hospital with severe pain in the ear, temperature 102.4?F., and headache. The middle and external ear were swollen, red, painful and tender. The patient could not lie on the affected side and was in a grave condition. She was given opening medicine, fever mixture and hot fomentation, and the swelling was painted with tincture of iodine and ichthyol, and...

Role of the Mastoid in the Middle Ear Function

Secretory otitis media (SOM) is one of the causes of permanent hearing loss. The key factor in the pathogenesis of the SOM is a chronic under-atmospheric middle ear (ME) pressure, which is assigned mainly to an altered ME gas exchange in combination to an impaired Eustachian tube (ET) function. Recent research pointed to the importance of the mastoid in the ME pressure balance related to ambien...

Sinonasal inverted papilloma involving the middle ear and the mastoid.

1 MD by the Federal University of Ceará (Resident Physician at the ENT Service of the Walter Cantídio University Hospital of the Medical School of the Federal University of Ceará). 2 PhD in Medicine by the Medical School of the University of São Paulo (Adjunct Professor in the ENT Course of the Medical School of the Federal University of Ceará). 3 PhD in Medicine by the Federal University of Ce...