Facial Palsy accompanying Acute Mastoiditis

Bilateral tuberculous mastoiditis and facial palsy.

The patient was first seen at Red Cross Children’s Hospital in September 2001, aged 3 years and 2 months. He was living with his unemployed single-parent mother in an informal settlement. He had bilateral suppurative submandibular lymphadenitis, requiring incision and drainage. Two weeks after discharge, pus swabs revealed a positive culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The local TB clinic w...

Bell's Palsy: Symptoms Preceding and Accompanying the Facial Paresis

This individual prospective cohort study aims to report and analyze the symptoms preceding and accompanying the facial paresis in Bell's palsy (BP). Two hundred sixty-nine patients affected by BP with a maximum delay of 48 hours from the onset were enrolled in the study. The evolution of the facial paresis expressed as House-Brackmann grade in the first 10 days and its correlation with symptoms...

Thirteen-Month-Old Boy with Malignant Lymphoma Having Symptoms Mimicking Acute Otitis Media and Mastoiditis with Facial Palsy

Non-Hodgkin diffuse large B-cell lymphomas of the mastoid that extend from the nasopharynx are extremely rare in children. Moreover, in lymphoproliferative diseases, the presence of otoneurological signs prior to systemic disease involvement is rare. Here, we present a rare case of non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma invading the middle ear and mastoid in a 1-year-old boy that mimicked acute mastoiditi...

Thirteen-month-old boy with malignant lymphoma having symptoms mimicking acute otitis media and mastoiditis with facial palsy.

Non-Hodgkin diffuse large B-cell lymphomas of the mastoid that extend from the nasopharynx are extremely rare in children. Moreover, in lymphoproliferative diseases, the presence of otoneurological signs prior to systemic disease involvement is rare. Here, we present a rare case of non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma invading the middle ear and mastoid in a 1-year-old boy that mimicked acute mastoiditi...

Sulphathiazole and Acute Mastoiditis