Introduction: Petrositis is a rare but severe complication of acute otitis media and mastoiditis. Despite efficient antibiotic therapy, there are still reports of both intratemporal and intracranial complications of otitis media with the potential risk of high morbidity and mortality. Petrositis has traditionally been treated with surgery, but recent advances in imaging, with improved antibioti...

Mastoiditis is a condition that can occur two weeks after the onset of acute suppurative otitis media. With assistance her daughter, an 86-year-old female patient presented to family medicine outpatient clinic with complaints urinary incontinence and fatigue. Although prevalence media in elderly population varies by country, it generally low, ranging between 0.25 9%. Older patients have otalgia...

Otitis media (OM) is a common pathology in peadiatric cases. Serious and life threatening complications including petrositis, epidural abscess, subdural abscess, cerebral abscess and meningitis, may be seen with OM. However they become rarely seen nowadays due to the improvement of antimicrobial therapy. Beside this, they may be silent but with dangerous evolution . In 1904, Giuseppe Gradenigo ...