XXVIII. Epidemic Mastoiditis

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...

Lecture XXVIII: Horizons and the area theorem

We begin by reconsidering the nature of the horizon. As we found in the Schwarzschild case, when properly considered in terms of a set of coordinates that are nonsingular at the horizon (ũ, ṽ, θ, φ), the horizon (in that case, ũ = 0) is actually a 3-dimensional submanifold H of the overall 4D manifold M. This is not surprising since it represents a boundary between the region observable by an o...

Sulphathiazole and Acute Mastoiditis

Acute mAstoiditis in pediAtric populAtion

Introduction. Among intratemporal complications of acute otitis media, acute mastoiditis (Am) is the most common one. the diagnosis is based mainly on the clinical features, though radiological imaging can be helpful in more serious cases. the management consist of conservative and surgical treatment. Material and methods. the retrospective analysis of patients with acute mastoiditis hospitaliz...