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Otogenic intracranial abscess.
Middle ear is separated from middle cranial fossa by thin plate of bone known as tegmen tympani and from the sigmoid sinus by sinus plate. The chronic middle ear disease such as granulation or Choesteotoma can errode tegmen tympani or posteriorly the sinus plate and lead to intracranial complications. The most important to otolaryngologist is the brain abscess and sinus thrombophlebitis. Any pa...
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Central nervous system (CNS) infections present significant mortality and morbidity, being life threatening diseases which can easily develop into challenges for physicians, despite the advances of modern medicine, in respect to development of antibiotics and modern surgical techniques [16]. Since the advent of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the mortality has dropped significantly. We presen...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0886-4470
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.124.12.1353