TUBERCULOUS 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...

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...

تظاهر ماستوئیدیت سلی به صورت کری و فلج عصب صورتی یکطرفه و توده گردنی: گزارش یک بیمار و بررسی متون

Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a rare cause of mastoiditis, but diagnosis is often delayed, with potentially serious results. Case: We report a case of tuberculous mastoiditis with unilateral hearing loss, facial paralysis, and cervical lymph adenopathy on presentation.                         Conclusion: Tuberculous mastoiditis must be considered in all cases of chronic refractory m...

Sulphathiazole and Acute Mastoiditis