OBJECTIVE To review the experience at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the management of suppurative complications of acute otitis media from 2000 to 2007, with an emphasis on changes in frequency over time. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Academic, tertiary care children's hospital. PATIENTS The study population comprised 87 children (age <18 years) with acute mastoi...

Mastoiditis is a common complication of acute otitis media. It in younger age compared to adulthood. occurs when an media infection spread directly involve the bone mastoid air cell causing osteitis. Cholesteatoma can contribute development mastoiditis. This typically leads breakdown some fine bony trabeculae cells producing coalescent mastoiditis with emphyema antrum. The treatment for intrave...

The incidences of extracranial and intracranial complications of acute otitis media (AOM) in children have markedly decreased in the postantibiotic era. Zygomatic abscesses are the rarest type of abscesses originating from mastoiditis. This paper presents a case with a zygomatic abscess as a complication of acute coalescent mastoiditis in a 7-year-old girl who underwent cortical mastoidectomy a...

Masked mastoiditis is a distinct form of mastoiditis with little or no symptomatology, characterized by its potential to generate severe otogenic complications. Therefore, suspected masked mastoiditis should be diagnosed and treated without delay. This study reports a rare case of masked mastoiditis, manifested by multiple intracranial complications in an immunocompetent girl. The child exhibit...

The incidence of mastoiditis in pediatric age has consistently increased over the last two decades due to increase of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Compared to young patients, occurrence of acute otitis media complications such as acute mastoiditis and subperiosteal abscess is relatively low in adults. Various treatments for acute mastoiditis with subperiosteal abscess such as tympanostomy tub...

BACKGROUND Congenital cholesteatoma may be expected in abnormally developed ear, it may cause bony erosion of the middle ear cleft and extend to the infratemporal fossa. We present the first case of congenital cholesteatoma of the infratemporal fossa in a patient with congenital aural atresia that has been complicated with acute mastoiditis. CASE PRESENTATION A sixteen year old Egyptian male ...

Results: The study included 134 patients with osteomyelitis. The cases were divided clinically into 4 main groups: haematogenous, exogenous, postoperative and mastoiditis. Staphylococcus aureus was the most common causative agent in haematogenous osteomyelitis whereas Pseudomonas sp. were the most common causative organisms in postoperative and mastoiditis groups of bone infection. The total nu...

BACKGROUND Mastoiditis is a known cause of lateral venous sinus thrombosis (LST). We have encountered patients with LST associated with mastoid abnormality on MRI without any clinical signs of infection; the significance of these abnormalities is uncertain. This study examines the relationship of LST and mastoid air sinus abnormalities systematically. SUMMARY OF REPORT We performed a retrospe...

Osteoradionecrosis of the mandible in conjunction with mastoiditis is an extremely rare occurrence following irradiation of salivary gland malignancy in the orofacial region. We report one such case of a patient who presented to us with trismus, jaw pain, and ear discharge. Imaging of the jaws revealed classical features of osteoradionecrosis and mastoiditis. This case is important because pres...