Suppurative Mastoiditis in an Infant

Chapter 9 : Acute suppurative otitis media and acute mastoiditis

Suppurative periarthritis in an infant due to the suipestifer bacillus.

Salmonella infections in infancy and early childhood show a marked tendency to invade the blood-stream and produce foci of suppuration in various organs and tissues. Certain strains appear to become localized in particular sites; thus b. enteritidis (Gaertner's bacillus) and the closely related b. dublin, frequently infect the meninges causing suppurative meningitis. B. suipestifer (the hog cho...

Large Meningioma in an Infant

Abstract Background Histologically confirmed meningiomas in first year of life are quite rare. However, review of the sporadic cases in the literature reported meningioma in infants. Those have unique features in common. Case presentation An 11 month-old Iranian male infant presented with a several weeks history of decrease in movement of his right sided upper and lower extremities. Brai...

Mastoiditis in Kelantan.

Chronic mastoiditis and subperiosteal abscess are rarely seen nowadays in most countries. Thirty-four cases of mastoiditis were reviewed to find out the prevalence of chronic mastoiditis in the east coast of Malaysia. Twenty (58.82%) of these cases were a sequelae of chronic suppurative otitis media with cholesteatoma. All the patients with chronic mastoiditis were more than six years old. Fort...

Submandibular Hemangioma with Cardiorespiratory Arrest in an Infant

Hemangiomas are defined as soft tissue lesions in the maxillofacial or oral region. Hemangiomas of salivary glands constitute 30% of the non-epithelial tumors in major salivary glands.  Benign tumors in salivary glands are located 85% in parotid gland and 13% in submandibular gland. We present a case of submandibular hemangioma in an infant patient that had some complications and a challenging ...