Otogenic Intracranial Complication-A Case of Cerebral Abscess.
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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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عنوان ژورنال: Practica Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1884-4545,0032-6313
DOI: 10.5631/jibirin.92.1043