TUBERCULAR MASTOIDITIS WITH SEQUELLAE

Mastoiditis and Gradenigo’s Syndrome with anaerobic bacteria

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Gradenigo's syndrome is a rare disease, which is characterized by the triad of the following conditions: suppurative otitis media, pain in the distribution of the first and the second division of trigeminal nerve, and abducens nerve palsy. The full triad may often not be present, but can develop if the condition is not treated correctly. CASE PRESENTATION We report a ...

Intra-abdominal complications and sequellae of pneumoperitoneum.

Several reports in the literature concern animal experiments with pneumoperltoneum and none of these describes any significant local pathologic changes attributed to the presence of air in the peritoneal space.’ Trimble, Eaton and Moore,2 in 1939, reported necropsy findings In 20 patients who had received pneumoperitoneum for varying lengths of time prior to death. Less than half showed any mnt...

Acute mastoiditis with temporomandibular joint effusion.

otitis media has a markedly lower incidence of intra-and extratemporal sequelae today than in the pre-antibiotic era. Among the complications of acute otitis media, mastoiditis continues to be the most common intratemporal complication. The classic description of acute mastoiditis involves a child with antecedent acute otitis media who develops high fever, severe otalgia, postauricular erythema...

Squamozygomatic mastoiditis Summary

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...